I Took A Walk and Found a Gorgeous Farm Mural and an Albino Squirrel Along the Way!

My wife said "get up and go take a walk."  I said, "Yes, dear."

Taking a walk through Oneonta really opens your eyes to things that you just don't see when you go whizzing by in a car.  My first impression today was how dirty everything was.  The melting snow reveals a couple of months worth of garbage, Christmas decorations and junk strewn about.  I think this is not new, however.

I walked for two miles today.  It was cold but not unbearable.  I enjoyed my walk a lot.  As I strolled along Center Street near West Street I looked up at Hartwick College and was amazed at a bright, colorful mural splashed all across the front of one of their buildings.  I went up to explore.  It was beautiful!

I have no idea who did this mural (it is paper panels covering the bricks) but congratulations on a stunning rural depiction right in the middle of the city.

As I headed back down Chestnut Street into the face of a now bracing wind, I heard a chattering going off to my right.  I was stunned to see an albino squirrel chomping away on some seed in a feeder on a tree right out near the sidewalk.  I stopped and stared at him for quite a while  He was pure white and was totally unfazed by my intrusion into his little snack session.  I have never seen an albino squirrel before.

You never know what you are going to see when you "get up and take a walk."