June 19th - Sauntering Day!

World Sauntering Day is an annual holiday celebrated on the 19th of June each year. The purpose is to remind us to take it easy, smell the roses, to slow down and enjoy life as opposed to rushing through it.

Sauntering is a verb to describe a style of walking; it is not a sashay, prance, trot, or lollygag. Simply it is to walk slowly preferably with a joyful disposition.

The exact year of its origin is unclear, but it is credited to have begun at Grand Hotel (Mackinac Island) in Michigan during the 1970s. The Grand Hotel has the worlds' longest porch at 660' in length. A response by W.T.Rabe to a growing movement toward the recreation of jogging. The idea of the day was to encourage people to slow down and appreciate the world around them.

Today I want you to go for a SLOW walk in your neighbourhood, and take time to smell the roses... and show us a photo of what you saw on your saunter today!

It is a beautiful day here today for a saunter! Hope it is at your place too!

It's gorgeous!

Great day for a saunter!!! I can do this!

This is a good kick in the pants for my PL too.  One of the pages I wanted to do was about going for walks.  Haven't taken my pics yet!

More rain here...... need to start building an ark! lol

I will try and take some time today for a walk in the neighborhood. I saw a nice playground the next street over. Should be a good place to take the kiddies.

That is a nice bonus, Carla.  I was vey impressed with all the playgrounds in the area that our DD lives.

I saw a hot air balloon while DS & I were "sauntering" at my parent's house

I'm so glad you got the picture Stephanie!!

Cool!

Neat, Stephanie!

Thanks!  I got it just before it was going down behind the trees.  It was falling quickly!