Things I've Seen On Walks

Walking around Cicero and Berwyn, there's no shortage of wonderful sites to collect.



And lilies, lilies, lilies. Mine all bloomed back in June.





and I love this final picture, because even though I took it mid-day in natural light with the Harinezumi, it looks like a Dutch painting.

Moving

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

I love these short films by Rick Mereki. Not surprisingly, they've gotten 93,000 views in two days of being posted. Three: Move, Learn, Eat.

Moving has meant a lot to me in the last two years, mostly because movement was hard or painful. But just back from a two mile walk without any pain or exhaustion or any feeling other than being a little sweaty. And I feel like I could star in this film. . . and that's a feeling I can't really put words to. . .

Here are the other two. . .

LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Recovery & Rehab

So, the big surgery is out of the way, and I'm now in recovery. My back hurts, but I'm meant to walk about as much as I can. These first few days, I've decided that's mostly scuffing around the house, in combination with one big walk a day(I'm only allowed to use stairs once a day, so. . . not a lot of other choices).

Mama is in town to take care of me, and so we used Freddie's ridiculously yummy ices as a draw for the walk midway point. I had lemon. She had raspberry.


And then on the walk home, we took a slow-mo gander at all of the neighborhood roses. . .







It's a little over half a mile one way. And so now, I'm bushed. But the ice was totally worth it!