The Leaves are Thinning

As I look out my window, I notice that the huge oak tree on the next block has dropped most of her leaves - I can see the clouds and sky beyond for the first time since March. The back yard, so dense and overgrown most of the summer, begins to thin out as well, unveiling the fence, the neighbor's garage, the back of his house. The safe, secluded back yard yields to uncover sticks and open air.

On the way to work this morning (bicycle, greenway), a deer. On the way home, a jogger, a woman walking a dog, and a man on a bicycle with a bb gun (I hope). I passed a dead cat on 11th Street, and made sure that, when I got home, I visited with our cat. Traffic was sedate today - maybe the cold keeps traffic down?

On arriving home, I find a mailing (yet another) from some guy named Nutter. An utterly contemptible piece of mail, denigrating the sitting senator from our district to the Virginia Senate. I despise the mailer, the person who mailed it and the Virginia system of elections that staggers state and local elections so that we get to vote practically every year. We have to put up with such filth and falsehood more than we should. Yet, try to change that.

So, maybe to work tomorrow on the bicycle again. So invigorating and such a good sense of accomplishment once you get there (or back).