July 29 -- walking to yoga

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It had rained, earlier in the afternoon, but there was lots of blue sky as I left the house. 

Looking straight up.

Hooray for big old trees in established neighborhoods.

I did not arrange this.  The leaf is a portent of things to come, arranged on the sidewalk within the curve of the name of the company which poured that section of sidewalk.

Oh dear.  This was a big old locust tree.  Perhaps the biggest one I know of.  It was clearly failing.  Many (very large) dead branches.  I knew it needed to come down.  But it's still sad when it does.

Do people make things out of locust wood?  This cross section is very attractive........  I like the colors.....

Walking on.




Shiny bicycle-handlebar streamers on a wet old wooden picnic table.

Looking east over West Park.

Various sorts of black-eyed yellow flowers, and monarda.

Looking north.

No ducks, as I walked over the pond.  But it started to rain.  I noticed it first as ripples on the pond.

It rained harder and harder.  I hate arriving at yoga all wet....  I looked around.  the sky was dark overhead, but it was blue in the west.

I decided to stand under this crab-apple tree and wait for a minute or two.  (There was no thunder.  Just rain.)

Looking west.

It rained right down for a couple of minutes.

Close crop of the above, so you can really see the rain.........

The rain stopped after two or three minutes, and I went on to yoga.  Damp, but not wet.

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