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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Late June 2016

I managed to get up early enough for a walk at the park and lake near my house.

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It's not so much a matter of waking up early enough but on the weekend it's getting motivated to leave my house before it gets hot.

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I work 30 miles or so from my house and the traffic can be terrible.

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To avoid bad traffic I go in early so I beat the worse part of the morning commuters and I leave early to beat the evening commuters.

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After so many years of working primarily from my home computer I relish not having to get dressed and leave the house over the weekend.

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In the summer if I don't get out early I can't walk because I don't handle heat very well.

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This morning was perfect for walking. 

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I was surprised there weren't more people at the lake but I'm sure a lot of people showed up after I left.

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It's easier for me to walk in the fall and winter because I don't have to work around heat.

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My attitude is I can always add more clothes against the cold.

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The only time I can't walk in the winter is when it's icy and I have to be concerned about falling.

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I love catching the moon in the morning before it goes down.

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I've never seen a sign like the one below. 

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I like the idea of a butterfly highway.

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I'd rather walk through a butterfly highway than drive on one for automobiles.

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I was surprised the creek wasn't higher with all the rain we've had.

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I know the plants have been happy about a wet summer.

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The flowers at the lake and park looked very happy.

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I'm not sure what this plant is. I wondered if it might not be a variety of hydrangea but the flowers aren't like ones I'm used to.

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If someone tells me what the plant is I'm sure it will be something I should have thought of.

Sunday, June 19, 2016

Clouds, flowers and Raindrops

This past week was hot and humid with some beautiful clouds and rain followed by a much cooler sunny weekend.

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One of my favorite things about butterfly weeds is how they hold on to raindrops.

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My rose of sharon is growing up through the trees.

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I was looking up at the trees when I first noticed the blooms.

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I have different varieties that haven't bloomed yet and are still much lower in shrubs.

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This weekend had some wispy clouds.

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I've enjoyed over the past 10 to 15 years watching this garden grow and expand.

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The house is around the corner from me and they started with a small trip around the edge of the property.

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Each year they added another strip until the majority of the yard is a beautiful perennial border.

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On one side of the house they have a mix of flowers and a vegetable garden.

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After finishing a father's day brunch I made for Bill we walked around the block and it was nice seeing how well the garden was doing this year.

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Nice to have a cool enough day to walk.

Sunday, June 12, 2016

First Half of June, 2016

With the exception of the past four days, we've had a much cooler than usual start to the summer which I have enjoyed.

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I'm not a big fan of extreme heat.

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I took the first three shots with my phone.

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The next two shots were taken with my camera in my yard.

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I prefer shots taken with my camera but as I said in my last post the camera in my phone is much better than what I had in my old flip phone so it's nice when I don't have my regular camera with me to have the new phone's camera.

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I took the shot below in downtown Durham when a co-worker was driving and it's a phone shot.

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The last shot is one where I was focusing on a bird in my wild cherry tree but the bird flew off before I got the shot.

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I hope we'll have another cool off because after a cool start to summer the past few days have had highs that were as much as 30 degrees higher than the prior week.

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