chochiyo_sama

I stayed home from school yesterday (wednesday) to rest my knees.  they ached.  I wanted to keep them up so i could be okay for  the rest of the week. 

My back and hip were hurting from favoring my knees for weeks.  I figured as long as I was home, I might as well see if I could get in to see Lori Cole, my chiropractor.  I was able to get a 2:30 appointment, so I went in and had acupuncture, electro stim treatments, and an adjustment.  My back is much better.  I slept sooooooo good last night.  I was so sound asleep I didn't even wake up when Michael tried to call me this morning.  i wouldn't have known he had called at all, except that I woke up to pee and my phone was making its little burbling noises to tell me i had missed a call.

I called him back, to tell him i was sorry i'd missed his call, and he was still sitting in his truck outside the shop.  Big goof.  i think he was sleeping.

anyhow--while I was in Owatonna, it was such a cold, gloomy fall day that I had to take some pictures of it.  it was reminding me of hte month of November.

The sky looked sooo gloomy.  It was dark and cold, and the wind was blowing.



I tried to zero in on that low hanging sky with my telephoto option.



I decided  to drive out to Mineral Springs Park to see what the leaves look like on this cold and blustery October day.




Even on a day without much sunlight, that tree has a blaze of beauty about it.



if I were not so old and fat and crippled up, i'd love to climb up that stairway.   When I was a kid i used to play up there--pretending that I was one of Robin Hood's merry band.



Princess Owatonna looks like she is wrapping her blanket around her now because she's freezing her patootie off.



it looks lighter in this picture than it actually was.  i wanted to get out of my car and roll in those leaves and smell their pungent fall odor.   The thought of hundreds of piles of dog crap and the possibility of broken bottles and stuff under them prevented me from impulsively acting on it.



i don't know who these kids are or what they were doing, but they looked like they were having fun.  the one in the front was poking a big stick into the water--something i would probably be doing if i were young and spry again.  The river is horridly low.  

When I was young you could drive your car further into the park than you can now.  right around where those kids are, there was a place that you could drive your car across through the river.  I recall it was all slimey with algae.  I used to try to walk across the slab, and nine times out of ten, I slipped and fell down and got an algae green buttocks.  Yuck.



As i drove past this, i just visualized robin and his merry men in their lincoln green liveries darting between the trees, ready to fall upon one of the sheriff's illicit convoys ferrying out the wrongly seized property of the peasant class.




Just a nice view of the river under the bridge.  There might be a troll under there.  i haven't seen any evidence of one-but there MIGHT be one....



That's the river on the side of the road.  i liked the way all the trees bowed over the river like they were trying to see their refection in the water.  The water is pretty murky and sluggish--and, once again, quite low.

There was a beautiful sunrise today, but i was in a hurry and didn't have time to stop and snap some pictures of that.