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One day, when the world slows down and I don’t have things to do or places to be, I’m going to do a study of leaves.
I’m going to pick a branch and mark it, somehow.
And then I’m going to take a picture of it each day, from buds until leaf drop. I’m going to do a study of a leaf.
That’s my plan.
And now, a few pictures from yesterday’s run. It was just a quick half-hour three-miler.
I got tasked with running ahead, catching my breath and setting up an action shot:
It took several tries, and that one was as good as it got. (I blame the catching-my-breath part.) If you look just closely, The Yankee has both feet off the ground in that one, a proper running stride.
We posed:
And we took one of our alternate poses:
Ask a nice person out for pie. Date ’em for four-plus years. Get married. Eat pie every Friday for more than a decade. It works every time.
This one was a homemade apple pie. It was delicious.
After work, it was 68 degrees, and I went for a run. It was an easy 10K, and my longest run of the last two weeks. I went slow because it was so warm. And rounding one corner:
Tonight, we did a thing:
We're watching an old #movie and just started a new Twitter account about it old movies. Join us, won't you? Right now it's That Thing You Do on @IveSeenThisOne. pic.twitter.com/n9GOdPLeuM
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) March 14, 2019
I love that movie and never could figure out why everyone in the band didn’t become a big star — except T. B. Player. That one was obvious.
How did Steve Zahn manage to not have a huge run after stealing every scene in this movie? pic.twitter.com/MYYZift32e
— Rewatching Movies (@IveSeenThisOne) March 14, 2019
There is going to be some good stuff in that account when we get it off the ground. You can just tell when you’re sitting on, and not following through with, a good idea.
Three characters need an epilogues. The early fan geek, Uncle Chris Isaak and Bos Vic Koss, the Pittsburgh emcee.
Now obviously the Uncle Chris Isaak is a terrific ladies man. And Vic Koss becomes an early presenter in Hunger Games. I mean look at this guy. pic.twitter.com/dpizbPgV0w
— Rewatching Movies (@IveSeenThisOne) March 14, 2019
What movies should we watch next for this? And should it only count if you watch the whole movie? Or could you just jump in midway through, say … Shawshank … and start chiming in about the rock hammer?
Hey, it’s spring break. These are the more-weighty-than-usual thoughts I come up with over spring break.
On the way back in from lunch I ran into our friendly neighborhood squirrel. Call it a signal of the season.
I’m sure this one has a name. The students have named them all. There’s some sort of casual and non-scientific tracking observation going on, and you occasionally see updates on social media. They’re so acclimatized to humans that this one kept moving too close and running the video I was trying to shoot. (And when do you say that about wildlife?) I wanted to make a gif. Alas.
This is my favorite part of football in the spring, and just about my favorite part of football:
No, you and I could not play football.@richeisen doing the dash as a pretty swift Everyman is my favorite part of the football offseason: https://t.co/hfaWVH7rUL
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) March 12, 2019
Oh, Aunt Becky:
If themes got rewrites …
Whatever happened to predictability?
The milkman, the paperboy, passing the ACT?
…
When you've flunked out there and you're all alone,
A bribe is waiting to carry you on.
Everywhere you're booked.
Everywhere you're booked.
(Chip-a-dee-ba-ba-dow) pic.twitter.com/dqmbBjjzYp— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) March 12, 2019
Tomorrow it’s going to be in the sixties. Spring has arrived. (That’s the biggest joke in this post.)
