Thursday, December 30, 2010

Places I walk

It isn't Floridia, and it isn't bicycling, but I do get outside for about an hour just about every single day. Exercise is good. However, it is my belief that the opportunity to be outside in natural light on a daily basis is the main cause for the fact that I feel the best that I have felt in December for many years. Walking in the daylight is surprisingly good.

Here is a suburban oddity created by unplanned development. The far end of the path was developed at a different time than the near end of the path. This path is located in a place where ordinarily there would be a street. The houses over there are too close together to allow the standard width right of way and appropriate setbacks from the right of way for the houses. Instead of a street in this place we have a dedicated public path.Here is a place I have pictured before, the user created pathway from the Snelling Avenue apartments to the fast food mecca along the main highway. The path used to go straight ahead.Then there was six more inches of snow and another round of fast food joint parking lot plowing. The users of the path were not deterred and now the path veers off to the left. There is a fire hydrant down there where the path now enters the Famous Dave's lot. The fire hydrant is unlikely to get plowed in leading me to believe that this iteration of the path may well last until spring breakup.

Which if the currently occurring rain continues could come . . . ? Soon?

I suspect not.

1 comment:

Retired Professor said...

Good post, pretty scenery and interesting commentary on the psychology of acclimating to urban winters.