My challenge to visit 192 countries, read 1,001 books, and watch the top 100 movies. Horses, boats, pubs, and a royal baby. On Monday, the weather was pretty decent so I decided to go for a long walk. After three hours of wandering the city, I made my way home through Hyde Park. They had much of it blocked off for a gun salute. I pondered staying, but it was time for me to take Miles out. However, I did see this.

Squeezing the moment, sharing the joy. It was a few days into my vacation in early June, and I was in Fuetzen, a village in the southern Black Forest in Germany once again. It was officially still spring, but hot enough to feel like summer. Some tenecious haze had settled on the not too distant Black Forest, causing it to appear somewhat blue as it was basking in the warm sunshine. Every once in a while some farm equipment drove .