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| 24 Nov 2025, 14:00 |
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
— Theodore Roosevelt —
We had another sunny November day here, with temperatures hovering around 0'C - but pavements dry and looking "walkable"... I decided to believe myself able to walk at least down to the river and back the same way. But once I reached the bridge, I decided to prolong the walk by crossing that, and walking back along the path on the other side to the next bridge (behind the buildings in the background); and from there up across the old cemetery back home. Which according to my own caluclations should mean that I managed a walk of at least 1 km. (Only an interim goal; but still worth celebrating!)
Tomorrow is laundry day again, which is likely to keep me busy enough at home.
The afternoons are very short this time of year...
| Sunrise Today: | 8:12 am |
| Sunset Today: | 3:36 pm |
The weather has been "back and forth" a lot this week. From sunny and frosty to the first snow - and then back to rain and thaw. On Friday I had no idea if Saturday would bring more snow, just rain, or a mix. The answer turned out to be just rain, though. And today the snow was gone, the temperature still above freezing point, and the rain had moved on as well - even leaving glimpses of blue sky and sun.
So I decided to try a walk to/in the old cemetery again. I kept to an "inner circle" of paved paths (avoiding the "outer circle" of gravel ones which might be soggy and muddy) - but with that adjustment managed to walk "almost" round the whole place, for the first time since my knee injury. Was out for about 40 minutes. I'm probably still only walking at about half speed compared to back in summer, though - which is something I have to take into account when setting my "goals".
The next few days likely to keep hovering around 0'C again - so "one day at time".
Friday sunset reflected in the windows of a nearby building.
(If I hadn't known it was the sunset, I'd have been seriously worried!!)
Linking to: Weekend/Street Reflections # 252
After that spectacular show last night, the sun went into hiding again, though; and today has only offered grey skies and rain, while the snow has kept melting away. I have not set foot outdoors, but neither have I got much"done" indoors. In the afternoon I intended to spend some time reading - lying on my bed with myself and the Kindle both comfortably propped up. Woke up some 2-3 hours later and found that I seemed not to have read more than a couple of pages before I dozed off...
Looking back in my photo archives, I see that last year too, we had the first snowfall around the same time in November.
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| Photo from Nov 22, 2024 |
Today (Nov 21, 2025) was also a sunny winter day here, with a thin layer of white on the ground, and a few degrees below 0'C - neither slushy nor particularly icy. As the weather will probably turn more unreliable again tomorrow (a mix of rain and snow to be expected) I decided to take advantage of the here and now. So after lunch I donned my winter boots and coat etc again, and went out for my usual Friday "recycling walk" - and from the recycling bins, back a different way, including a stop at the small corner shop where I sometimes buy some extra fruit & vegs between my regular home deliveries from the supermarket. (Bananas and a cucumber on my list today.) A couple of months ago, hardly worth mentioning... But today, besides being my first proper walk this season with snow on the ground, it was also the first time since my unfortunate fall back in early October that I felt up for combining two errands on the same walk. I was out for about 45 minutes, and even if in total it was still a shorter distance than 1 km, it felt like progress.
No photos from today's walk, as I was busy enough just watching my steps, and holding a walking pole in one hand and a bag in the other... But later, back home, I took this "skywatch" sunset photo from my balcony:
