Fair warning: this post contains a LOT of pictures, so expand accordingly.

Today was the Women's March. I had decided to go along with fisherbear, and my friends A and F decided that this was important enough, and likely to be mellow enough, to be their daughter K's first protest event. Given logistics, we decided to carpool to the light rail ( Read more... )

It's been a number of years since I participated in the 3-Day. (And given the recently revealed nature of the leadership and financial wastefulness of the organization, I'll probably never participate in another Komen-sponsored event, but that's another post.) Since then, I have gradually gotten *out* of the habit of walking intensively. Oh, I ( Read more... )

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...and shot 4 rolls of film at the Solstice Parade, which involved a couple of hours of photographer's squats (squat down, shoot a bunch of frames, shift over, sit back, get back into crouch). I am definitely tired and a bit sore. But on the plus side, I'm not sunburned, I don't have any blisters, and I really am starting to think I can do the 3 ( Read more... )