Meditation walk @ Apex Community Park (Lake Pine Drive entrance)

Please be sure you come to the Lake Pine Drive entrance (Cary) to this park (which is not the main Apex entrance); if you put the intersection of Lake Pine Drive and Versailles Drive into your GPS you'll get close to the right spot.

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/e/6/3/e/event_136558942.jpegWe'll be hiking the Lake Trail that goes around the parameter of this lake - it's a wonderful and relatively short trail (paved greenway) that typically has lots of walkers and runners ... so I'm hopeful that on a Sunday morning it will be less crowded. I like this spot because it's ideal for a quick walk, wetland wildlife is abundant (on my last visit it was a blue heron, my visit before that seagulls), and the dam at the lake is a wonderful resting place (and an amazing location for watching sunsets).

There are 2 or 3 side trails off of the paved greenway that we'll include in our walk that provide a more intimate connection with nature so we'll detour off of the main path to walk these natural pathways. We'll be stopping at a delightful lookout point on one of these trails to stand/sit in silence if time and space allow.

Please bring a journal/pen. I expect that the walk, journaling and coming together as a group will last about 1-1/2 hours. This is a relatively flat walk (both the paved and unpaved trails) with only a slight uphill at the start, and a slight downhill at the end; the trail surfaces are even (few tree roots/rocks). Total distance is about 2.5 miles.

We'll be walking rain or shine unless there's thunder and lightning.