All in a Days Walk

I was looking forward to the walk today. We had the first frost of the season. It would be a crisp walk with frost all over the ground.

I hadn’t been gone for five minutes when I heard them. Leaf blowers. They are around all summer. But now the big leaf blowers are out, and they are louder, and they spend more time at the lawn getting rid of the leaves.

I walked north today on Newfield Road. I was coming up to the Italian Center when I heard a car accelerating behind me. I looked back and the car was passing three cars on a double line. The car missed me by thirty feet as it veered back into its lane. I thought I am going to need an eye in the back of my head to watch out for all these bad Stamford Travelers.

Crossing the Merritt Parkway, I gaze into a nice lawn and see a hawk alighting from the lawn with a chipmunk in its talons. Nature at work.

I turn left onto Lakeside Drive, and I am amazed at all the traffic at 10:30 in the morning. Traffic seems to be increasing all over Stamford these days.

I arrive at High Ridge Road and head south. I came to Chokepoint Charlie, and I feel daring. I decide to walk under the Merritt Parkway. Quite often I take the bus but today I walk and no problems.

High Ridge Road south of the Merritt is busy as usual. I saw a couple of thems. I do dislike thems. The is nothing scarier than crossing the street in front of a them. A Them is a car that is entirely tinted included the windshield and is usually a heavy tint. You cannot see the driver.They are just plain dangerous. By the way I took the word them from a SciFi movie called Them.

In the afternoon I am walking on Long Ridge Road, and I find $.32 cents on the street. No sidewalks, no reason for the money to be there. But it is.

Like I say all in a day’s walk