Weekend Warriors, Unite! (Somewhere Else)

This photo shows off just a small part of my very productive weekend. I have such a small, simple life right now and I just love it. I know I should want more of a social life, and I miss B and mom horribly for a moment or two a day, but I'm loving being left alone and feeling like I can slough off the work week hustle and bustle with quiet and methodical activity. Yesterday I went for a walk instead of driving to Barnes and Noble and Macy's, and intended to be out for a couple of hours. As it turned out, I walked all over our little part of the city and logged about 11 miles. When I got home I was thirsty and happily exhausted from knowing that I absorbed all of the beautiful weather and sunshine without sitting in a car all day. You see so much more when passing at 3 miles an hour rather than 30. I smiled at a couple in a cute Scandinavian-style house hanging out their window to measure the emergency ladder they'd just bought, caught the last moments of halftime in a field hockey game where one team was co-ed, caught a glimpse through a fence of an old Coca-Cola sign that looked like it must have hung outside a soda fountain or general store that I'm sure was collectible and someone probably had big plans for at some point that has now eroded and become a part of the backyard 'for now' area, and saw so much COLOR! It's funny how you forget over the winter that everything has it's own color the rest of the year. I walked by our neighborhood garden store and checked out the pansies, and went back today and picked out my favorites, for planting in my window boxes. Just when I feel like I'm tired of the noise of life, the birds start chirping again, and you can hear kids laughing outside, and bikes tick past the windows early in the morning before the church traffic picks up. I can proudly say that probably 80% of my weekend was spent outdoors, fueling up for the week ahead, when I'll use those reserves as I sit in artificial lighting surrounded by 3 four-foot-tall gray cloth walls and two computer screens, buzzing away diligently. I've already planned my escape, of course. Promptly at 5 o'clock I'll steal away to the restrooms to change into my super-hero gear (savior only to myself) and dash out the door for a run at a nearby park. I hope everyone's Spring is as refreshing as mine has been.