05/02/2026
I almost ended up on the 6 o’clock news tonight!
Happpppy Beltane and May Day 🌺🪷🔥 With no bonfires on the agenda, I decided to submerge myself in nature and go for a walk in the rain...
Houston has had a LOT of rain, and Buffalo Bayou overflowed its banks, covering the walking paths. When I started, the lower path was partially submerged, but nothing I hadn’t handled before. I was la-la-la-ing, taking photos of birds and plants, singing, completely oblivious to the rising water.
Halfway through, I hit my second flooded bridge. The only person I saw my entire two-hour walk was a parks guy at the first bridge who warned me about water moccasins in the murky water…so yes, that was top of mind 😬 But home was across that bridge...
So… I walked along the grass, climbed onto the outside railing, swung over, and shimmied across. Up close and personal with lizards, spiders, and SO many bugs, all of us just trying to avoid the water. 🌊
I made it across…to more water. No dry land. I paused, asked my angels to protect me 🐍, took a breath, leaped, and scurried quickly through the water to “dry” land. Phew.
Then it hit me… the underpass. Lower ground. No way it wasn’t flooded. Sure enough.
I tried climbing the concrete, but my shoes kept slipping. Grass wasn’t ideal either. But there was a tiny raised crack along the underpass where my shoes could grip. So, I edged across…then still had to climb up (luckily on the correct side of memorial dr.).
Again, those angels: “please let my shoes stick and get me to the top.” About 20 feet up… and somehow, they did. Phew. No slips. I grabbed the beams, pulled myself out, and made it to …cloudy, rainy skies, my version of sunshine today. ☀️
Freedom.
My anxiety dropped the second I hit my first unflooded sidewalk in over an hour. Then immediately called my bestie to describe my adventure. Ha
