For a few months now, alongside my job, I’ve been taking some botany and natural resources classes at Oregon State University (through their E-campus system, that is, which is fully remote and asynchronous, which is how it plays nicely with full-time work). What that means, blogging-wise, is that you can …
… you know what I miss these days? This is going to sound stupid, but I really miss seeing my breath billow around me in the cold. I hadn’t realized that that’s such a simple winter-exercise joy for me, but it really is. These days, if I see my breath …
Is it possible that winter sunrises are just more dramatic than any other season? Certainly one of you out there knows the science of this, and I welcome your insights. (For realz, please tell me what you know about this.) But I swear, the sunrises this late fall and early …
I never did take a big bike trip this year — which I’m not really so sad about, given the circumstances, though maybe a little sad. I still had some pretty good adventures in a stupid and crazy COVID year, so I feel pretty thankful about that, lose-myself-in-the-wilds bike trip …
Happy solstice!! Bring on those (ever so slowly) lengthening days!! Speaking of lots of darkness. When last we spoke, I was extolling the virtues of teaching myself to embrace running after dark. Not only to extend the amount of time, these shorter days, available to me to run, but also …
It’s 11 days until the winter solstice, and these ever-shortening days are feeling rather… short. I know it’s not really soo bad in Portland, but the 4:30 sunset (4:27 today, actually) and 7:40 sunrise is hard. Every year, despite being intellectually prepared for it (“sure, sure, it’ll get dark early, …