It’s getting chilly around here. Thirty degrees this morning. I’m getting wimpier about taking my walk outside and just go ’round and ’round indoors. I need to toughen up. The NY Times health columnist Jane Brody is older than I am and not only swims every day (vigorously, I’m sure) but walks five miles. Whoosh. I would have to walk back and forth to the high school — twice — to do five miles. It would take me half the day.
Here are photographs from the last couple weeks: shadows at the zoo, where my grandson ran into a friend he usually sees only in summer; milkweed and shadows; leaves casting shadows; an abandoned bird nest; overdevelopment reflecting on the waters of Fort Point Channel; and a burning sunset.
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Wonderful photos….
When you come, we’ll take more photos together.
I’m a wimp in cold weather, too, and it gets really cold here. So, I’m reduced to the Y and I hate going to the Y. It looks like autumn is hanging on beautifully for you!
What kind of exercise do you do at the Y?
Oh, that pesky elliptical thingy–ick.
After a while walking in the cold must start to look good.
Apropos of taking walks outdoors, Bob J wanted me to know about a 90-year-old conquering Mt Washington: “As for the benefits of outdoor walking, here are two links I think you will enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX_LhCLqcGQ
and
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/09/13/dick-dreselly-the-oldest-man-mountain/2Mjxw8aqG4LM1FFgJqwqTP/story.html.