A little springtime peace
Apr. 29th, 2008 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tigertoyI left work early so I could get my allergy shot, and then when I got to Carle they told me they still weren't giving shots. A week ago (on my regular day) they'd called me to say their refrigerator had failed and destroyed all the serums, and they thought it would be a couple of days to get them remade, so I shouldn't come in. I hadn't really remembered that they'd said to call before I came in; I just assumed that they had to have it fixed by now. And they didn't.
This meant that instead of just being able to squeak in a walk before dark, I had plenty of time. I perhaps should have done a longer trail, but I just went to Kickapoo for my usual walk on the Riverview trail. There were a fair number of birds around. Just off the top of my head, I had phoebe, kingbird, towhee, gnatcatcher, red bellied woodpecker, flicker, catbird, song sparrow, white throated sparrow, red winged blackbird, a song that was maybe an oriole but I'm not sure, mourning dove, cardinal, blue jay, robin, an I-think-great-horned owl hooting, a pair of swans and of course bunches of geese on the lake, and a turkey vulture overhead as I went home. After I'd finished walking the loop, I went over to the pond east of the parking lot and sat on the bench. As I sat and tried to let go of the day, I could momentarily catch the illusion that rather than the wind making ripples on the lake go by, I was actually moving in the other direction. It was very peaceful for a few minutes, but when a couple of people jogging by on the other side of the pond and talking loudly shattered the illusion, I decided I should go home and make dinner.
This meant that instead of just being able to squeak in a walk before dark, I had plenty of time. I perhaps should have done a longer trail, but I just went to Kickapoo for my usual walk on the Riverview trail. There were a fair number of birds around. Just off the top of my head, I had phoebe, kingbird, towhee, gnatcatcher, red bellied woodpecker, flicker, catbird, song sparrow, white throated sparrow, red winged blackbird, a song that was maybe an oriole but I'm not sure, mourning dove, cardinal, blue jay, robin, an I-think-great-horned owl hooting, a pair of swans and of course bunches of geese on the lake, and a turkey vulture overhead as I went home. After I'd finished walking the loop, I went over to the pond east of the parking lot and sat on the bench. As I sat and tried to let go of the day, I could momentarily catch the illusion that rather than the wind making ripples on the lake go by, I was actually moving in the other direction. It was very peaceful for a few minutes, but when a couple of people jogging by on the other side of the pond and talking loudly shattered the illusion, I decided I should go home and make dinner.