This Saturday

I hope to see you out there.  I hope the weather cooperates!!

Best kept secrets are best kept secret!

 

6:30 AM at the V. Star Pool.

I know better than to mention this but most of you folks live elsewhere so.....

I'm old enough to know you don't tell people about your favorite place, be it a camping spot or a favorite restaurant.  If you do it isn't long until word has spread and your favorite spot becomes crowded.

I was reading through the forums of the Masters Swim Association last evening and someone mentioning they had to share their lane with twenty other swimmers!!  E-gad!

I had not realized how lucky I am to have the place to myself most mornings at 6:30 AM.

Please don't tell anyone!

Noticings

I couldn't help but notice the interesting cloud display this morning and wondered if this is indicative of the wind that is promised all weekend.

And I couldn't help but notice this Blue on Blue and it reminded me of the blog I wrote, "Blue Monday", while in Shoreline, WA.

And this.  I remember these "drawings?", made with line after line of colored pens, when they first showed up in the late 1970's  This one seems to have finally lost it's appeal and was quietly waiting by the curb to be snatched or tossed.

And what's this?  An almost seventy year old man who's major purchases are walking shoes and swim goggles?  Whoot Whoot!

Solstice approaching

6:11 AM  Love walking in the light!

My walking buddy and I at the intersection of Harold and Laurel Pine.  He is wearing shorts.  I'm not!  :-)

Walking and Gawking

I've had my head underwater a lot lately and although swimming is good for me it sure puts a dent in my gawking!  Today I needed to walk to a store out South Franklin way and since we are having a break in our wettest Spring in years, I took my camera along and shot what caught my eye. 

I was intrigued by this building and the ongoing attempt to stay ahead of the taggers and noticed this guy coming down the alley on his bike.  It is all in the timing!!

Good Job!

The sign says "No Parking".  Right!

Shredded but hanging in!

761

You may have noticed updates to this blog has been absent for a while.  This blog seems to be hinging at a tipping point.  It could go either way.  Onward or offward.

My morning "walk and gawk" that initiated this blog started to change when I began swimming last December.  I was still getting up at 5:55 AM each morning to walk but to walk to the pool.  Along the way to the pool I discovered my walk coincided with another Fort Bragg morning walker and soon I joining him each morning for his walk up and down Harold Street.  He would then continue home and I would continue to the pool. Mostly walking and talking, not gawking.  (My total walk, 2.6 miles)

After a few months of swimming laps I had increased my swimming to a mile each morning.  Gawking and photographing had pretty much gone by the wayside.  Besides, I had already photographed almost everything, even those hinges!

And besides, I am building a radio controlled sea plane.

And I am going to Seattle for the month of July to help my son paint his RV-7/A home-built airplane.

And the VA wants to fit me with a Loop Monitor to try and figure out the heart "flip flop" I get about every five weeks. "It's not the plumbing, its something in the wiring", they say.

And my wife is still in Seattle taking care of her 94 year old mother.

And I want to go backpacking in the Sierras again in September.

And our model airplane club is hosting an Air Show.

And, and, and.... well, Spring happened, life happened, stuff happened and summer is coming.

My blogging has slipped.

Why title this post 761?
This is my seven hundredth and sixty first post!!

 I'm taking a break.

Reflecting on a web.

Questions come to mind.

How did the spider get to the stick in the first place?

How did he/she get the "guy wires" over to an anchor point?

How could it change its routine and make a half web?

 Amazing!