It was a sunny, not as warm as I thought it would be Friday in Seattle so work was a ghost town this afternoon and I left promptly at 5:00 myself. The bike ride over the low bridge was slightly less challenging than it was on Monday (that's biking four days this week); I even passed one person. Three other people passed me. Luckily I'm not ( Read more... )

I confess off the top that I've carried my book around today but I've not read a bit of it. Rumor has it it is supposed to be 80 degrees in Seattle this weekend; perhaps I'll park myself in an adirondack chair and read. Which is, I now remember, unlikely, because it's West Seattle Yard Sale Day on Saturday and of course I'll be wanting to hit as ( Read more... )

Okay, so it's not yet 10:00 which is an improvement, I think, but I'm still feeling tired and, well, tired. This morning started out so gloriously sunny and Gradka started out so insistent about getting outside that I got up early so she could have some pre-work out-time. I enjoyed my cereal and gardening magazine surrounded by birdsong and ( Read more... )

I swear this is going to improve one of these days but once more I didn't notice many birds and I've simply not picked up a book, at least not that I'm talking about.

Birds
northern flicker
dark-eyed juncos (Oregon)
starlings
house finches
house sparrows
crows
pigeons
cormorant
Canada geese

BookHonestly, I'm starting something that's printed and ( Read more... )

Three inspirational stories courtesy of the Seattle Times, plus further details from Cascade Bicycling. It's supposed to be "partly cloudy with winds light and variable" aka no excuse not to put some air in those tires and ride!

Somewhere I have the start of what was supposed to be a long post about the dying art of criticism, the point being that "if you can't say something nice, you should say nothing at all" has perhaps gotten out of control though that statement would have to be balanced with some sort of acknowledgment that at the very same time people seem ever ( Read more... )

Oddly, I'm quite sincere. When I looked out the window at 5:00 this evening and saw that people were using umbrellas, I was not pleased. I wondered why I had decided, belatedly in fact, to bike today. I lamented my sandals. But I turned down an offer of a ride (that wouldn't have done me much good anyway since it was in the wrong direction) and ( Read more... )