Timberrrrrrrrr!!!

These palms in front of my apartment building shed their fronds when least expected.  I always hesitate when parking  beneath them.  I always look up to see if it looks like one of the fronds is about ready to drop.  Since moving here in September 2007, I've yet to witness one of them actually falling to the ground.  That is, until today.  I was just pulling up to the curb, home for lunch.  I stopped the car, put it in park and was just about to shut off the engine when, "swisssshh, plop!"  I'm glad I stopped where I did!

I did witness this site one morning when I came out to get in my car to head to work.  This was actually a re-staging I did when I got back home.  If that green solid end should hit the car, it could do a mess load of damage!  I need to get in the habit of parking on the other side of the street!

Bay Healing

This has been a not so good week. This head cold has been going around at work and I've been fighting it ever since Tuesday night. Mostly just a stuffed head. Not really much more than that. I ended up staying home today and resting all day. I'm feeling much better now.

I decided to take a walk tonight to get some outside air. I walked down to the Bay and brought my camera. It was such a beautiful night. I decided to focus on 'palms' tonight. So . . . here are some of the sights on my walk tonight.

Losing Track of Time

These past couple of days have been pretty cloudy and every so often, pretty rainy too. I had some errands to run this morning....the Credit Union and the Post Office. I clocked it . . . it's 1.5 miles to the branch where I will be working! For my training, I had to drive to Brandon, which turned out to be a 60 mile round trip ride. Now I'll be exchanging that for a 3 mile round trip ride! Woo! Hoo! I'll be visiting the gas station a lot less now! Plus, saving the $6 in tolls each day!

After I finished my errands, I decided to visit the Saturday Morning Market again. I bought myself a vegetable curry crepe which came with a small salad. YUM! As I was sitting there in my t-shirt and shorts and flip flops, I realized that here I was, still thinking summer, and it is almost November. It's weird how I've lost sense of seasons passing. It doesn't seem like Hallowe'en time, but last night I was in Target for a short while and saw aisles and aisles of Hallowe'en stuff. Right next to the Christmas stuff!



Tonight I'm going out with some friends to a 'Hallowe'en Party' at one of the local hangouts. Maybe I'll wear my LOST numbers shirt?

This is an interesting shot. Every so often I'll see one of these huge palm fronds (is that what they're called?) on the ground. I guess that's how these palms get rid of their waste. I've wondered what would happen if one fell on the top of the soft roof of my Jeep. This morning, I saw this site . . . the bottom had split and it must have somehow slid down the trunk. No idea! My Jeep was parked two palm trees up from this one.