A pink moon?

Heading home from my after dinner walk I had a beautiful view of an almost full moon in front of me - and it was pink! That's a new one for me. I've seen pink clouds, and a pink sky at sunset, but I've never seen it reflected in the moon before. Beautiful...

Have you ever seen a sea gull pacing?

I have! I was out walking early this morning when I heard a noise - a loud noise, at that. I followed the sound, only to find a single sea gull pacing back and forth in front of the door to a building. Do you think he (or she) was looking for a friend?

By the way I assume that the gull was OK since there was no trace of it on my end of the day walk...

A bike ride? Almost...

I woke up today thinking it would be a Saturday without cycling. A downpour woke me at 4:30 AM - just in time to retrieve todays newspaper from its (plastic-wrapped) spot in the middle of the rain. I luckily fell asleep again, and awoke to a very wet day. Ah, a walking day. But wait - in the afternoon, the sky grew lighter, and the pavement was drying out. Time to attempt a bike ride.

As I headed off, my neighbor expressed concern about my being on a bike and the distant thunder we heard. My bike headed out anyway - with me, of course - but we didn't get too far. I turned home after only a half a mile when the thunder got stronger and it started to rain. The rain was light, but given the forecast I decided to be careful. I put the bike in its usual shelter - in the dry garage - and came inside to quickly change into walking togs. I headed out, luckily with an umbrella. After I'd been out only 10 minutes, an incredible downpour started. Even with the umbrella I was soaked when I got home! Hopefully I'll be able to wander out again later on foot. The bike will have to wait for tomorrow's forecasted sunny, cool day.

A walking day afer all...

An evening walk watching for rain

I've gotten into the habit of walking in the early evening. Looking at the sky I almost stayed home - but quickly decided that the worst that would happen would be that I would be very wet! I headed out with an occasional glance at the sky, listening to ever-threatening thunder. I exchanged a few words with a fellow walker who also decided that getting wet wasn't that bad, especially given the current temperature - warm, with more than a touch of humidity.

Home again with the sky getting ever grayer. I'm mostly dry - just a bit of sweat! Time for a cool shower...

Light show!

Wow! There were some pretty powerful thunderstorms that rolled through here this afternoon. We were sitting in the office listening to crashes that turned out to be thunder, and yet the sky above us was still bright and blue. As I drove home under a sky that was more blue than gray, I could see cloud to ground lightening strikes that looked to be not too far away.

I love watching storms, and yet I hope for good biking weather. Those two things don't go together at the same time!

Twelve weeks? It's hard to believe...

...that it's been 12 weeks since that fateful day when my bike and I did a flip on the way to work. I've published a journal of my crash and my journey back to me - and I'm still on that journey. You can read it at denisegoldberg2004crash.blogspot.com.

Sleep, sleep, no sleep!

I really wish I had control over my body, but since my little crash of May 20th it seems to want to get more sleep than it's getting. As in, I appear to need at least 9 hours of sleep a night, but most nights I'm fighting to get eight! This week is a good - or should I say bad - example. On Monday night, the last time I remember looking at the clock it was just before 2AM, and I woke up at 7. Five hours is not good. The next two nights I managed about seven hours of sleep, and as a result I've been pretty tired today. I wonder if my exhaustion level at this moment means I'll finally get a good night's sleep tonight...

Walking morning and night...

I'm still not back to my normal level of cycling, but I have been managing to walk in the morning and in the evening - with my work hours sandwiched in between. Squirrels, chipmunks, and rabbits are there for my viewing enjoyment, and I have to say that the rabbits make me laugh. Recently I saw a pair of them chasing each other around in circles!