A Wednesday walk among books, nature, and sweet treats

Hello, awesome Hivers!

Although it is already Thursday, I will tell you about my little walk yesterday, because better a little late than never, right?

My son is still getting ready for his move to university and has been getting out of some books these days. Some he has donated, others he has given to friends, but he still has a lot left. And yesterday, he told me that he wanted to take a few to a library box that has been placed on a path near our home. He noticed it when he was walking with a friend a few days ago, so we went there.

The library box has been placed in this walkway near the entrance to the Parque La Fila, which I have already told you about in my Wednesday walks in A wee hike in the afternoon. It has been there for only a couple of months.

It's made of wood, and they've put a couple of wooden benches on either side of the library box. The initiative, as far as we could find out, is from one of the neighbors in the area, who has built the library box himself with the support of one of the local businesses that operate in a nearby shopping area. And apparently, it has been a success. People are going to take books. And most are returning them, according to a neighbor who was walking around the site and came over to chat.

We left the books that my son brought, and we plan to bring more these days.

I love initiatives like this that humanize places and make you feel that there are people who still care. And want to have a better quality of life for themselves and care about what they have around.

We then walked a little way along the path, as we wanted to get to the shopping center that is down the street parallel to it.

And on our way, we were able to admire some small samples of how wonderful nature is, like these fungi. It has been a long time since I had seen such striking ones.

There were also these small fuchsia wildflowers.

And these yellow ones, which were blooming in some trees in the area.

Already when the path approached the area where the shopping center is.

I noticed that there was a woodcarving on the side of the path.

The chatty neighbor we had seen when we were dropping off the books had told us that we would see it and that it was made by the same person who made the library box.

At this point, we crossed to the opposite sidewalk to go to the shopping center. On the pavement, they were already setting up the vegetable market that usually takes place there on Thursdays. It is common in some areas of the city this type of market which is set up once a week with vegetables brought from Los Andes. And now that I think about it, I will have to visit one of these markets these days to make a post for #MarketFriday.

In the shopping center, after going to the pharmacy for a couple of medicines we had to buy, we couldn't help but go to eat ice cream.

My ice cream was dark chocolate with raisins and candied fruit pieces. This was for you and to celebrate your birthday Super Ed @tengolotodo ;)

And thus ends our walk this Wednesday.

This is my post for this week's #wednesdaywalk challenge hosted by @tattoodjay in collaboration with #makemesmile hosted by @elizacheng.

If you made it this far, thank you for reading.

_{All images and writing are my own unless otherwise stated.}

© CoquiCoin

August 18, 2022