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Aug. 11th, 2012 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weirdquarkI've been getting up early and walking around the lake by our house on the days that I don't lift weights; it's a nice low-key way to get more exercise in and it isn't so hot out that I don't want to leave the house yet.
On Thursday I left the house around 6:15am, which turned out to be the perfect time to start a walk. The light was dim and blue when I started out, just barely light enough to be morning. I started out down the footpath and over the bridge where the trees were close enough for spider silk to be strung across the path, windmilling my arms to keep it from my face with limited success. The first part of the walk has houses and trees on either side. There's a point where the road goes right by the lake and I reached it just as the sky had lightened from dim blue to pale pink and gold, the sun still too low behind the horizon to be seen. I stopped there and did a few sun salutations facing the sunrise.
Life seen or heard, both wild and domesticated:
The twittering of various birds and the hum of water from sprinklers watering a lawn.
A Spanish-speaking contracting crew, arriving to do work on a house being built on a corner.
A small round shape scuttling into the brush at the edge of the road that was probably an armadillo.
A rabbit in the middle of the road that hopped away down the road in the direction that I was going, stopping every now and then to see if I was still following it, and after two or three rounds of this figured out that maybe it should run towards the trees instead.
A dog that was very concerned that Someone Was Walking By His House and barked to warn me off.
A blue heron picking its way across the shoreline of the lake.
A flock of (mostly Canadian) geese.
A rooster, crowing somewhere on the property of the people who have goats.
Blue jays taking off as I startle them out of someone's driveway.
Three semi-feral cats who deign to stay at the house that spays and feeds the cats that result from the travels of a cat who is not fixed belonging to another neighbor. One of them is a gangly kitten who makes a break for it after noticing that he was seen. One of the others jumps up on the fence to get a better look at me but does not want to be petted.
When I got home the sun is not quite above the line of trees to the east, but the pale pink and gold has spread further up the sky and the colors at the horizon are deeper; the pink more purple and the gold brighter and more orange. I went out on the dock and did a couple more sun salutations.
On Thursday I left the house around 6:15am, which turned out to be the perfect time to start a walk. The light was dim and blue when I started out, just barely light enough to be morning. I started out down the footpath and over the bridge where the trees were close enough for spider silk to be strung across the path, windmilling my arms to keep it from my face with limited success. The first part of the walk has houses and trees on either side. There's a point where the road goes right by the lake and I reached it just as the sky had lightened from dim blue to pale pink and gold, the sun still too low behind the horizon to be seen. I stopped there and did a few sun salutations facing the sunrise.
Life seen or heard, both wild and domesticated:
The twittering of various birds and the hum of water from sprinklers watering a lawn.
A Spanish-speaking contracting crew, arriving to do work on a house being built on a corner.
A small round shape scuttling into the brush at the edge of the road that was probably an armadillo.
A rabbit in the middle of the road that hopped away down the road in the direction that I was going, stopping every now and then to see if I was still following it, and after two or three rounds of this figured out that maybe it should run towards the trees instead.
A dog that was very concerned that Someone Was Walking By His House and barked to warn me off.
A blue heron picking its way across the shoreline of the lake.
A flock of (mostly Canadian) geese.
A rooster, crowing somewhere on the property of the people who have goats.
Blue jays taking off as I startle them out of someone's driveway.
Three semi-feral cats who deign to stay at the house that spays and feeds the cats that result from the travels of a cat who is not fixed belonging to another neighbor. One of them is a gangly kitten who makes a break for it after noticing that he was seen. One of the others jumps up on the fence to get a better look at me but does not want to be petted.
When I got home the sun is not quite above the line of trees to the east, but the pale pink and gold has spread further up the sky and the colors at the horizon are deeper; the pink more purple and the gold brighter and more orange. I went out on the dock and did a couple more sun salutations.
