Snapshot: A Texas fall

Daylight walks though...

Nothing brings a week of great weather to an end like the Dallas Marathon weekend.

E and I got to take a rare walk in the daylight today. It was muggy and disgusting, but beautiful. I love when I realize that after driving to and from work day in and day out, the trees have gone from green to autumn. Actually, compared to our 5 AM walks, I love being able to enjoy not worrying about being abducted or killed. (as much)

On our walk, I saw three children raking leaves in their yard. It took me back to the time when my Mom would make us rake leaves...which would have been fine. But my Mom made us rake leaves before they had all fallen off the tree. I remember arguing, vehemently, my logic that it would be better to wait until the tree was bare before raking. Why waste multiple days raking when you could just do it all in one day?!
Obviously, I ended up raking leaves before the tree was bare. It was infuriating and one time I threw the rake up in the tree and it got stuck. Then I had to climb the tree and get it down.

Luckily, these children were having a great time. I was going to take a picture to send to my Mom. Now look, even though I am not a middle aged, white, male, I still felt it was inappropriate to take pictures of children from across the street.

As we walked, E and I reminisced of younger times when we were quite the middle distance runners. We might have both been thinking of Saturdays of yore when we would set out for a 5 mile run or longer if it was cold enough. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit.
Regardless, we are both old and broken now. It's walks from here on out.

Good luck tomorrow, runners!