I am sure that the ride I took yesterday didn't burn off nearly as many calories as I consumed during Thanksgiving dinner. I suppose most people could say that the bike ride, walk, run, swim, skate or whatever they took (if, indeed, they took any of those) after their holiday repasts could say .the same.
Anyway, yesterday was a lovely day all the way around, from the beginning. As I left to go to my friends' place, I was greeted by this:
The window is in a building two doors down from where I live. I had seen the cat once before; if I do say so myself, she knows she's looking at a friend when she sees me. Were there not a screen (as there was yesterday) or windowpane between us, I'd be stroking and possibly feeding her. I'm sure she knows that.
What's striking about that cat is that her body is white and she has patches of colors on her head and rear--a reversal of what one normally sees. (Both of my cats have colorful bodies and patches of white.) One of these days, I'll ask her human how he or she found her.
After spending the afternoon with food and friends (possibly in that order), I snuck out for a ride before dessert. I tried to capture, on my cell phone, a tree in near-perfect late-fall sunset hue arched over a street. What I got instead was the beginning of the sunset. Oh well.
From there, I rambled over to the Worlds' Fair Marina prominade, which rims Flushing Bay from LaGuardia Airport to the Flushing Bridge, a span that provides some of the most necropolitic vistas in this city. Just east of the airport, I chanced upon this schizophrenic scene:
Then I went back for dessert, which added even more calories than I burned off. But, hey, it was Thanksgiving. And the food and company were great.
After that, I rode to visit a friend and co-worker in the hospital. He's in a coronary care unit, where eating isn't allowed, so I couldn't bring any of the food I'd shared with my friends. It was sad, but it showed me a few things for which I'm thankful.
P.S. No Black Friday for me!
Anyway, yesterday was a lovely day all the way around, from the beginning. As I left to go to my friends' place, I was greeted by this:
The window is in a building two doors down from where I live. I had seen the cat once before; if I do say so myself, she knows she's looking at a friend when she sees me. Were there not a screen (as there was yesterday) or windowpane between us, I'd be stroking and possibly feeding her. I'm sure she knows that.
What's striking about that cat is that her body is white and she has patches of colors on her head and rear--a reversal of what one normally sees. (Both of my cats have colorful bodies and patches of white.) One of these days, I'll ask her human how he or she found her.
After spending the afternoon with food and friends (possibly in that order), I snuck out for a ride before dessert. I tried to capture, on my cell phone, a tree in near-perfect late-fall sunset hue arched over a street. What I got instead was the beginning of the sunset. Oh well.
From there, I rambled over to the Worlds' Fair Marina prominade, which rims Flushing Bay from LaGuardia Airport to the Flushing Bridge, a span that provides some of the most necropolitic vistas in this city. Just east of the airport, I chanced upon this schizophrenic scene:
Then I went back for dessert, which added even more calories than I burned off. But, hey, it was Thanksgiving. And the food and company were great.
After that, I rode to visit a friend and co-worker in the hospital. He's in a coronary care unit, where eating isn't allowed, so I couldn't bring any of the food I'd shared with my friends. It was sad, but it showed me a few things for which I'm thankful.
P.S. No Black Friday for me!
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