NY, my left leg is slightly shorter and I have a long history of back troubles. Very well may be a source of your issues. Best of luck.

shootingstar, I love that you have such variety of landscapes in your area and, especially, that kind of a view of distant mountains. We are so solidly forest that the only way I get to see any great distance is to head to a large lake or our local airport.

This week, have been hard at work building up sections of my trail that wind though some swampy lowlands. Hubby built me some ten foot long treated wood bridges that I can use to cross the worst areas, but left it to me to move them in to place and install because he has a bad back. Very mucky, yuky mosquito infested kind of work, but they work. Eliminates tearing up the trail. The deer like them, too. See their muddy tracks on them.

The honeysuckle vines we have growing outside our door are in bloom and are under constant bombardment by the hummingbirds. Neat.