a place to visit.

i'm so excited to feature a guest post today from my dear friend, erika denn. she had a birthday not too long ago. today, erika is sharing with us one of her favorite places--walden pond in concord, MA. i hope that we'll be seeing more of her on well hello, chicago.

Its funny how sometimes a particular spot can give you such a sense of place, how some spots seems to define an entire region. I recently visited Walden Pond and feel that something about Walden just captures the thing about New England that I love so much.

There’s a little trail that goes about 2 miles around the whole pond with overhanging trees and exposed roots and on a sunny day, there is this perfect kind of light…greenness reflected from the trees into the water and onto the path.

The famous transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau once reflected on this very spot:

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. And see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

It’s hard not to think of these very lines when visiting the pond, and not to wonder what it is you may hope for your life to hold.

thank you so much, erika, and thanks for the pictures, too!