Walking My Shadow

I’m not going all Jungian on you now--it’s just that I got such a late start on walking my four miles on Camp May Road that my shadow was many yards long on the way down. It was breezy and cold--breeze wasn’t as bad as it could be--didn’t take my breath away! Hearkening back to Slippery Walking on Camp May Road, February 14, 2007, I finally figured out what it was that I thought was ashes on the road after a vehicle slid into the guardrail--shattered, dark-tinted auto glass. The pieces have now migrated to the side of the road and glint like obsidian.

Walking Camp May Road is not a particularly glamorous way to get exercise--it’s pretty pedestrian (pardon the pun!) and probably dangerous--some cars drive like it’s a proving ground--but the uphill parts do give me some serious exercise and gazing at the views is good for the soul. On the way down, I could see Santa Fe Baldy looking all frosted and flocked from the fresh snow yesterday and the almost full moon already up.

Camp May Road is my current “bread and butter” route because it’s close enough to home and, when time is short, like today’s late start, I can get the job done and go on with my life. When I used to jog, I had bread and butter routes all over the county--Los Alamos has such a supreme selection of trails! There is hope that I will again be walking on trails one day soon because I could see that melt off is occurring in the woods, exposing exciting amounts of BARE GROUND!!!! I also saw that vehicles are braving the logging roads off of Camp May Road.

I’ve been thinking that since I don’t know beans about blogging--strictly a seat of the pants blundering blogger-- that I would start reading other blogs to see if I can figure out how to do this. I found two local ones: The Bomb Town News Observer, “ONE MAN'S POINT OF VIEW ABOUT LIFE IN LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO, AND OTHER THINGS”. That blog linked to Los Alamos Bikes, “A Forum for the Cycling Community of Los Alamos, New Mexico”.

There is another blog called Life in Los Alamos but it is in Japanese. I went to Google Translate and, using their “Japanese to English BETA” version, was able to "translate" the blog but it’s still not easy to understand because automatic translators are very imperfect in rendering syntax, tending to be laughingly literal! The blog does seem to be local because in one of the entries there is a photo of a Los Alamos Monitor newspaper spread out to dry. I can make out from “Google Translate” that the carrier delivers the newspaper by throwing it out the car window and this time it landed in snow!

[Note: Links to these three blogs are listed to right under “Links”]