Straight Path

I seem to have been a little careless recently. A few days ago my blip of a turntable suggested you could see what the name of the record (playing as I took the picture) was. In my photo program that was no problem but on Blipfoto it didn't work. Sorry - it was Hotel California. Then yesterday I mentioned the extra showing my sliced open sourdough loaf - except the extra wasn't there! It is now. I shall try to do better!
And so to today's picture. Our walks often involve one of the two lakes near our house but in winter there's a third objective we can walk to and along. This is the disused railway which crosses the road about 400 m from our house. It's a winter walk because there's too much vegetation for comfortable walking at other times of the year. Every so often the snow mobile / snow scooter club clips down most of the vegetation. Once the snow settles and the scooters start to drive back and forth the remaining vegetation is squashed down under the snow. Most often the squashed snow is hard enough to walk over, otherwise skis or snowshoes come into use.
Those rather lovely fir trees along the sides have grown since the trains stopped running about 15 years ago.
Being an ex railway the going is almost flat and very comfortable. There is a long-term plan to turn part of the railway into a surfaced track for cyclists and walkers, and an even longer section into a rougher footpath, but the Transport Ministry will first have to take away the rails and sleepers and clean up any poisonous residues, and that seems to be such low priority that it is unlikely to ever happen!