After a lovely week visiting my mother-in-love, where I walked everywhere I could and admired the green, windswept beauty, it was nice to be home again. I had considered going to Coffee Outside today, but I was so lagged from our trip that I slept in and opted for a mellower, shorter ride.
I made my way to Woodlawn Park and enjoyed the antics of dogs and their humans chasing balls and barking under trees that had yet to drop their leaves; a dry late summer meant that the process of tree-change would be slower. The sun was bright and warmed my back as I continued on.
I took the scenic route around the back of the park and the elementary school so I could get in the minimum mileage, then arrived at Woodlawn Coffee.
I ordered a cup of coffee and a fresh chocolate chip cookie, which I enjoyed at one of the outside tables. A bike friend rode up as I was finishing, on a beautiful Gunnar cross bike in a metallic minty green. We chatted a bit, and when he went inside I got up and threaded my way home along quiet residential streets. Squirrels scurried up trees to get out of the way as I passed. The breeze picked up a little and blew some fallen leaves across a sunlit street.When I got home, there was a small gathering of starlings on the part of the lawn still in sunlight looking for scattered seeds from the feeder. At the sound of my tires on the gravel driveway, they flew up, startled, and flew away.
Total distance: 2.5 miles.
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