Category: walkabout / local

Walking through campus this morning.  Then the rest of the day seemed to be consumed with bookkeeping and spreadsheet design involving MIL/SIL.

Downtown mid-morning to deal with errands.  Just looking around.  Contemplating Ivi’s upcoming visit.  Snagged a couple of candidates for my old-time picture postcard series.

On the way to the dentist today, an inauspicious sighting:  a black cat.  But it went well, and on the way home, a library stopover, then treated self to a peek at a local gallery.  Plus the usual game of letting photographs find me …

Late afternoon stroll, pretty hot, could be worse.  A note about the final two images:  At one juncture, I found myself being pursued by a barking, seemingly fierce animal just slightly smaller than Charlie, then to have him abruptly be diverted by a telephone pole, just a couple of feet behind me.  Thereafter he was innocuous and and returned to the care of his owner who had been chasing him for about half a block.

Saturday morning stroll downtown where a local celebration holds forth, with a car show (more to follow) and sidewalk shopping.  Have to pop into JC Penney’s for relief, as it seems to have the best air conditioning along the way.

As is my occasional practice, I try to get portraits of dogs I meet on my walks.  Nobody has turned down such a request yet; people seem to like to show off their dogs.  Or is it the other way around?  Walked down to the local car show this morning, and found the dogs as interesting as many of the cars.  (I think we also have some doggery from the recent Spokane trip — stay tuned.)