8r4d This October morning #sky #sunrise looked like a roiling sea on the horizon and kinda matched my vibe. [read more...]

8r4d A year ago tonight I was wandering around Chicago having arrived that day for the upcoming marathon weekend. This year we’re enjoying the #autumn #trails while out on our regular #running meetup.

pixelazy The saga of my sad botany skills continues but this fern has obviously been revived to some measure of health.

#houseplants

8r4d The Kid booked the makerspace at the library for a couple of hours so that she and her friends could try recording their podcast there, so as a resultI—the responsible, waver-signing adult—needs to hang around and kill a couple hours #writing and having some tlc with my #keyboard. Oddly, a bustling library on a Sunday afternoon is less ideal for my creative efforts than I would have imagined.

8r4d Sunday #running with the #runcrew made for some lovely but cool #autumn scenes

pixelazy Soon our morning #walk will be in the dark as foretold by the #sunrise views we’ve been getting lately.

8r4d The weekly #running of the creek was decorated by emerging #autumn foliage.

8r4d I find myself unexpectedly on #whyteavenue on a Wednesday evening, sipping #tea and #writing because The Kid needed a ride up to an #improvtheatre orientation up here. I didn’t really expect to be up here and, yeah, I tried the library but where my #keyboard is usually quiet enough for the background him of the cafe to not be annoying, I felt very self conscious about the clickety-clack in the super-quiet library what with people, probably students, studying all around me. So—I paid for a peppermint tea and here I sit, trying to feel inspired or something.

8r4d While I’ve been busy this past week, so have the landscapers who have been busy laying sod along the trail where we #walk that has been under sporadic construction for about a year now. This has been radically transformed from the garbage-strewn fox trail I used to use as a short cut on my runs a few years ago.

8r4d I neglected my parental duties this past week and did not post any birthday pictures, yet here I am a few days later with my #keyboard and #coffee resuming the wordsmithing efforts from the local cafe after buying the kid a fancy latte on her way to class.

8r4dsfeets Two visits to the dentist in 24 hours. So that’s how my week is going—

8r4d Just #running at #sunset as #autumn creeps in closer and closer…