Out Walking
I went out walking for 45 minutes this afternoon. I started out on the route that I used to take every morning when I walked Rhombus and Desy. The sun was shining but the air was cold. Wherever there was any shade, it was pretty cool there. In the sunlight, it got pretty hot.
I noticed at the McInnes parking lot across the road where it's not been paved, a stand of cattails has grown up at the edge of the lot. There's a good bit of standing water there. Everywhere else the ground was really dry. I wonder when the cattails started to grow there and why the people at McInnes didn't get them out of there. I also wondered what had happened to make it an ideal place for cattails. Well, maybe it's not ideal. There weren't very many of them and they were just reed growth without any actual cattails, so it's probably not ideal, but they're definitely growing. Maybe the people there just thought that cattails couldn't be invasive there because all around that wet spot the land is really dry. I guess that makes sense.
Across the street from the Episcopal Church, I saw a man with a fluffy white beard, --about five inches of growth. He was wearing a cowboy hat and didn't look to be Amish and yet reminded me of Amish. Then I saw that he was the pastor of the Episcopal Church. I haven't seen him in several months. I had no idea that he'd grown a fluffy, white beard. He just waved and didn't stop to talk.
Along Gould Street I saw beautiful growth of fungi a little over five feet up a tree trunk. I've been impressed with fungi for many years. There are some interesting shapes and patterns in fungi.
I stopped at Dollar Store and browsed through it for five minutes but didn't see anything that I really wanted. It made a little rest for me before I headed home, even though I was on my feet the whole time.
I went by way of the lesser traveled streets and it was an interesting way to go. When I got home and hung up my jacket, I checked my pulse and found that it was up to 22. That's how we do it at Aquarobics, count the beats in 10 seconds and try to get it up over 18. It's hard for me to do that in the water but it's easy to do when I'm out walking.
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