6.2 miles
minnehaha dog park and back
53 degrees
wind: 15 mph
Back on track with the weekly “long” run with Scott. Today we ran past the falls to the dog park, then turned around. Beautiful but windy. Not sure if this has ever happened before, but a gust of wind blew my cap off my head. I joked with Scott that the wind was mad at me for the bad poetry I was composing. Something about how the bright sunlight strobed through the trees while the leaves disrobed and the wind probed the empty space where red and gold and green had been. Pretty bad — I guess I deserved to get my hat knocked off. Thankfully I was able to catch the cap before it blew into the street.
After we passed the falls, which were in full flow, I recited Mary Oliver’s “Can You Imagine” to Scott as we followed the paved trail on the edge of the bluff, above Minnehaha creek as it travels to the Mississippi. When I was finished he admitted he had become distracted when I recited the line, Surely you can’t imagine they just stand there loving every minute of it” because he started thinking about the song with the lyrics, “loving every minute of it.” At the time I couldn’t remember who sang it or how it went, but I just looked it up. Loverboy. Excellent.
10 Things
- a bright yellow tree
- next to a fiery red one, both glowing from the sun
- my favorite orange tree near the double bridge, now bare and looking brittle
- 3 roller skiers! Before I saw them, I heard their poles click click clacking
- a pileated woodpecker laughing, somewhere in the trees
- another woodpecker tap tap tapping away at the roof of the kiosk
- May Swenson’s scarcely gliding stream from her poem “October”: Minnehaha Creek as seen from the tall bridge that crosses over the Veteran’s Home
- from the top of the bluff at Wabun Park, you have a clear view of the new development on the old Ford plant grounds
- the glitter effect: the sparkling water burning through a gap in the trees
- dodging walkers, a few with coffee cups, as we sprinted down the hill and through the tunnel of trees