Late afternoon walk in and around Oliver, the museum, and Glenora. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves.
16C, 8,500 steps.
Awash in Colour
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Don’t Rain on Me
Just a short walk, to Tom’s and then back. Somehow, it didn’t rain on me, although the skies were very rumbly and dark. This is the only kind of cloudy sky I like, when it looks like it will storm (even if it doesn’t).
Around the ‘hood
Well, it was a beautiful day, sun-wise. The temperature is starting to drop after a pretty warm January overall.
Too late to coordinate with Tom, but we met coming around the corner along Ravine Drive!
About -13C to -11C over a couple of hours. 10,170 steps
November Sunset
A sunset walk to Tom’s and then back to my place. Beautiful skies, nice crunch underfoot.
The sun sets around 4:36 p.m. so if I’m walking to his place after work, or today (Sunday) I have to leave a little earlier than I would prefer. Gone are the days, at least for now, when I could leave at 5 or 5:30 in full daylight! This is the worst part of winter for me, the darkness. Well, the darkness and the ice.
Still, a lovely walk under clear(ish) skies and not too cold.
-6C, 4:15 to 5:30 pm.
Golden Gorgeousness
Yeah, I know I keep posting this particular scene at the old provincial museum, but I think it just really captures the season, whatever the season. Monet had his haystacks, I have this trail. Or something like that.
I was out at lunch and it was cold and overcast. After work, it was cold and sunny, in a twilighty sort of way. This is probably the last snowless day for a long, long time. -1C.
Addendum to this post: we got about 25cm of snow between Saturday, November 7 to Monday, November the 9th. It’s full winter now. It happens just like that in this part of the world.
A River Revealed
And suddenly, the river is open! Suddenly, in terms of what amounts to a weekend. Not suddenly, when you realize spring arrived on March 20, notable only for its absence. Still, I am grateful for the beautiful day and weekend we had, which consisted of rain (but not snow) on Saturday and hurricane-force winds (but sunny!) on Sunday. I was going to take Stella for a walk on Sunday, but she was limping and I was working, so we played in the backyard instead.
Today, for my 40 minute walk home – gorgeous, warm and calm. I took the Groat Bridge route to see what this first day of a three-year construction project would like, and it was no problem. The pedestrian path is not yet affected, but it will be. As for the traffic, it’s one lane each way. This won’t be a fun rehabilitation, but hopefully, this route will be accessible in some form for the duration. I will be taking other routes for the rest of summer.
5:05-5:45/13C