Going Walkies, Part II

Tea: Iced Litchi Red

Music: King Crimson, "Pictures of a City"

Time: Night.

I got in late from the Second Friday Artwalk in Kansas City, Kansas. (No barbecue forage, but I did get to taste some excellent locally made sausage, so I didn't make a liar of my "Carnivore" shirt.)

I was going to head home around 9:30 p.m., after the last gallery shut down. But when I was invited to stick around and watch a bicycle race, I remembered the admonition that "Life is lived in the detours."

I stayed, talked, had a few beers, made some new friends, was offered another photo show. Call it yet more evidence for the benefits of (a) hoofing it and (b) winging it.

See you in KCK on September 12.

Going Walkies, Part I

Tea: Mandarin Green, iced.

Music: The Proclaimers, "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"

Time: Afternoon.

Just got in from another ten-mile hike, this one at Fleming Park in Blue Springs, Missouri.

The time was better, the trails largely meh. The "rougher" trail disappeared at times into long grass (always fun in tick country), and the trail to which it connected presented little physical challenge beyond the distance involved.

Plus which, the foraging opportunities were all but nonexistent. There were no wood ears to be found, the prickly pears are at least a week short of ripeness -- and the only blackberry patch we located was guarded jealously by a stand of poison ivy.

Oh, well. The two-plus hours alone with my son did give us time to talk -- and for me to reassure him that, if need be, I can still take him.

Now, I'm headed up to Kansas City, Kansas, for a walk of another sort -- the Second Friday Art Walk. And I'm wearing my "Carnivore" shirt.

There might be barbecue foraging opportunities, you know.

Tune in next time for "Going Walkies, Part II." Because this time, it's personal.