In Which I Enjoy Being Outside
Yesterday morning I got soaked in a sudden squall on my bike ride to the train station and had to wrangle my slippery bike up into the train car. Fortunately I had a spare skirt - one that I'd made and was finishing up the pockets on. (The joy of making clothing is that you get to add functional pockets to EVERYTHING) So I basted the rest of the skirt together on the train, biked to my office (it wasn't raining in the neighborhood I work in) in my wet clothes, and once on my floor changed into the skirt and a spare button-down I have in my locker for just such occasions. The skirt was a success! It's eggplant colored made of a lightweight linen/rayon blend and a very practical length at just below the knee, full enough at the bottom to make pedaling or hiking easy but fitted enough to look professional. I took the pattern off another skirt I have that I really like and added pockets. Now I just have to resew over the basting.
The weather went from grey and cloudy to sunny, breezy, and warm, and after work I biked down to Del-Ray to have a wonderful dinner (gourmet grilled cheese!) with a former coworker and his wife. After dinner I biked the six miles to L'Enfant Plaza, most of it next to the Potomac on the Mt Vernon bike path. We're two weeks off from midsummers and the sun was a hands-breadth from the horizon, the shadows long on the grass and the marble buildings of DC a rich gold. I stopped on the 14th Street Bridge to get a photo with my cellphone, but the crappy phone doesn't compare.
I wrangled my bike onto the metro and Will met me at New Carrolton where we crammed the bike into the car - I really need to get the bike rack from my parents'. Back in Annapolis we took a long walk in the cool twilight around town, over to St John's to stand on the deserted Quad enjoying the breeze coming off the creek and then home to bed.
The weather went from grey and cloudy to sunny, breezy, and warm, and after work I biked down to Del-Ray to have a wonderful dinner (gourmet grilled cheese!) with a former coworker and his wife. After dinner I biked the six miles to L'Enfant Plaza, most of it next to the Potomac on the Mt Vernon bike path. We're two weeks off from midsummers and the sun was a hands-breadth from the horizon, the shadows long on the grass and the marble buildings of DC a rich gold. I stopped on the 14th Street Bridge to get a photo with my cellphone, but the crappy phone doesn't compare.
I wrangled my bike onto the metro and Will met me at New Carrolton where we crammed the bike into the car - I really need to get the bike rack from my parents'. Back in Annapolis we took a long walk in the cool twilight around town, over to St John's to stand on the deserted Quad enjoying the breeze coming off the creek and then home to bed.