Ella was driving me crazy this morning.

I walked to the far end and back of the linear park and path that starts near my apartment. A couple times, I had to "go offroad" and/or jog quickly by other people with dogs so Ella would stop growling and snarling. When I got back home, I found that my keys had fallen out of my pocket. They could have been ( Read more... )

I walked to the Value Village thrift store in upper Hamilton ("on the mountain") today. The portion of the walk along the Bruce Trail through the woods on the escarpment was gorgeous! The walk through upper Hamilton, which is a typical grid-based suburban area, was brutal. It was a hot day, there was very little tree cover, and the hat that has ( Read more... )

I was about to go for a walk for the first time since arriving in Canada. We're in a place very close to the Bruce Trail and a number of waterfalls are actually in moderate walking distance from the house! I want to take advantage of that before I move to the euclidean plane that is Regina.

And just as I was starting to get ready, a downpour started ( Read more... )

I decided to take a real camera on my walk with Poesjkin today. So, of course, it rained again. But before I rushed back to give him to his parents and get home, I took a few decent pictures of him. I was shooting at f1.8 and still barely got him to sit still long enough!


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Well, I'm glad I got back from my walk along Lake Michigan before the rain started! Instead I had an hour's foggy ramble through Southport Park and the Kenosha Sand Dunes. As it always does, the heavy fog along the shore provided a sense of unfolding mystery as I walked along the rocky trail through stands of trees, listening to bird song ( Read more... )

A couple interesting pieces of writing on being a pedestrian ( Read more... )