8r4d #spring is officially here and is marked by our ability to go just sit in the grass in the park listening to the #birdsong

8r4d The plum tree in my front yard blossomed out this week with the full force arrival of #spring and the #flowers are a sure sign that the winter is almost certainly almost done now. Right? … Right!?

8r4d Our Sunday #running outing was a chilly #spring lap around the neighborhood

8r4d Our #running group photo was a bit shadowy this evening as we logged a few klicks in the #spring sun.

8r4d A great #spring #running adventure featuring some trails, trees, shorts and not-so-shortcuts

8r4d Finally feeling well enough for a #running adventure and along with a warm #spring six klicks with running friends I got to meet an old coworker’s new baby from w chance encounter on the trail.

8r4d Long shadows and slippery ice. Our first long #running outing in #spring and our longest run of 2025. Well longest for me. I’m sure my laziness isn’t completely contagious.

adventuredog Pals in the park on a #spring #walk

8r4dsfeets First day of #spring our last day of #winter … you decide. Either way, the trails were a slip slop shop.

pixelazy I think maybe that today is the last day of #spring so it might be worth a new #sky shot with a bit of #sunset glow, huh?

adventuredog Another #spring day sitting by the lake in the morning listening to #birdsong as #summer just hours away creeps into view.

pixelazy Not all #spring #sky can be blue, huh?

8r4dsfeets #trails #running #spring

8r4dsfeets Oh #spring it must be pollen season huh?

8r4dsfeets It’s been a bit wet around here. #spring huh?

8r4d I spent a lot of the winter driving to various #cafe in the neighbourhood looking for a distraction-lite place to write and work. Then as the #spring arrived I switched to walking, trudging along the paths to my local haunts to find the same gaming-console-free no-tv nothing-to-clean space to get some more writing done. This morning I realized that with the nice weather and warmer mornings a #bike ride would substitute. So maybe I’ll spend my summer #cycling to write? As long as I can find a place to lock up. Starbucks was acutely lacking in bike racks this morning so I’m at Waves instead. #coffee

8r4d Day fourteen of my streak and on the last day of my second week of #running I opted to tackle the hot-ish #spring temps with some more mileage on my summer gauntlet project. I really need to be more methodical about my routes to be honest because I seem to recall that last time I tried this I was cleaning up the neighbourhoods with a lot less overlapping of stuff I’d already run. Or maybe I’m just idealizing my memories.

8r4d With only about 10 days until our year end concert our #orchestra is in full gear for practice. The result is that it’s Tuesday morning and I’m on the north side of town to meet for a morning sectional practice having barely recovered from our practice last night which ended almost exactly 12 hours ago. And it’s such a beautiful sunny #spring day too.

pixelazy A certain sign of #spring that the plum tree is in full bloom, but does this count as an #insect photo or a #flower photo or both? #macro

8r4d Just a family #walk on a quiet #spring evening. What better way to spend an hour after a long day of runs and yard work.

8r4d May the course be with you on this May the fourth, so my fourth #running excursion of the month was a visit to #parkrun in the #rivervalley where I slammed a 5k with about 60 others in the #spring sunshine.

8r4d Just a #spring day at the dog park.