January 4

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Our neighborhood is not flat. Our block is not flat.

Because it seems to me that my knees prefer uphill to downhill, I choose some steep downhills and some more gradual (so longer in time) uphills. I begin by heading downhill on our block, and then go west, uphill all the way, for about 10 minutes.

We've seen this view from the other direction many times. On the 4th, I turned around and looked back at the way I came.

You can see that some sidewalk is bare, but some is snowy/icy. I walked in the grass, mostly, on the 4th, rather than on the slippery white sidewalk.

(Poor sad butchered trees, chopped away from the wires......................  Also, you can see the moon in the upper left.)

This is why the white places were slippery. The darker bits, especially in the whiter areas, are ice. You can see that we had some smallish hail, and then snow. The snow packed in around the hail, holding it still, and the aggregation is quite slick. Not as bad as wet ice, but definitely baby-step worthy.

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