Hodology is the study of pathways. Could be in the brain, in psychology, in philosophy etc but today it is about walking, wayfaring, travelling, on paths, lanes, roads, holloways. drove roads, green lanes, coffin routes, pilgrim tracks, and so on. Today we explored a narrow gravel road between Penticton and Summerland called Shingle Creek Road, because it went beside the creek, which eventually joined Trout Creek in Summerland, about twenty kilometres away. Pathways are means of connecting, and never having been on this one before, we had to have faith that it did connect eventually! Our map showed that it did, but various unmarked forks had to be decided upon. It would have been better to walk on a path, rather than drive, in order "to better think and write". Good advice for bloggers. One such was Edward Thomas, a compulsive wayfarer and poet, who lived for only 39 years before being killed as a soldier in France in 1917. He wrote:
"The hill-road wet with rain
In the sun would not gleam,
Like a winding stream
If we trod it not again"
Here are a few photos from our wayfaring today on Shingle Creek Road:-
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| One of two vehicles we met! |
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| Ponderosa Pine Grassland |
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| Two paths cross the landscape |
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| Trout Creek near Summerland |
