45 minutes
minnehaha academy loop*
50 degrees
*43rd ave, north / 32nd street, east, past Minnehaha Academy / edmund, south / 34th street, west, past 7 oaks / home
Before taking a walk with Delia and Scott, I “watched” the Boston Marathon, where watching = tracking runners on the app, listening to the Citius Mag watching party, and watching the last 5 minutes of the women’s race on an unofficial YouTube feed. Wow, they were fast!
It looked warm and sunny, but it felt colder than 50. It was the wind, I think. For the first half we talked about kids and wanting to be empty-nesters and how to have hard conversations about the future and the series finale of The Americans — we finished it last night. In the second half, Scott pointed out a strange mash-up of a garage and I pointed out the Siberian Squill. I wondered if we were seeing it more now because we’ve named it, but we agreed that it has become more abundant in the past few years. There was a particularly impressive patch of it in the yard of the house on the south corner of edmund and 34th. Taking in the entire patch, it looked blue. Focusing on a flower, it looked purple.
10 Things
- siberian squill, everywhere, including at the edge of our yard
- a loud dog in a fenced-in backyard
- an empty parking lot at minnehaha, no school for Easter
- a metal sign at Cooper School, bent and leaning to the side
- a security guard car parked in front of the gate to the field at minnehaha academy
- the boulevard on the edge of the academy that used to have a small line of aspensmwith aspen eyes, now only has one aspen
- a woman stapling a poster to a pole
- mud on a boulevard — Delia, stay out of the mud! — a deep brown
- the wind chimes chiming at the house with an Easter Island head on the front stoop
- looking over at the river road and seeing/feeling the open space between the west and east banks
Back/hip/leg update: today it is a little uncomfortable to sit in the chair at my desk. Is that because I went down and up the old stone steps to the river?