Snuggling into Wintertime

Unknown Mami hosts a Sunday party known as Sunday in My City. Which I'm not linking up to, since I don't have any pictures to contribute, but after I read them it got me to thinking.

It is possible that it seems more like Fall/Winter today because of the end of Daylight Saving Time this morning, but suddenly it feels as though winter is staring me right in the eye. Most of the leaves are down, and the city has swept up the leaf piles left at the curb. Every morning while we're walking we can see migrating flocks of geese.

Our yard squirrels come up on the railings and peek into the kitchen window above the sink. What's up? Why no seeds out here?

We haven't suffered any snowy indignities that other parts of the country have experienced, so we are fortunate in that regard. But we have had some cold, cloudy, blustery weather nevertheless. Mornings are frost-laden and we wait to walk until nine o'clock, when there's some chance that it's a bit warmer.

We are finding, though, that when you get outdoors every day, you do get accustomed to the cold. Sort of. So far. What we won't get accustomed to is walking on slippery surfaces, so we are trying to plan ahead. We talked about exercising at the Y, and perhaps it will come to that. Yet we do have exercise equipment lying about unused, so we are going to do that together.

But for the time being, we are still good with walking in the great outdoors.