herbiehancock

Now that spring has arrived, I am looking forward to spending a lot less time walking on the track at the Y and instead be walking outside in the park, as long as weather permits. When walking at the Y, there isn't much to see while going around and around the indoor track. I don't think the folks at the Y would want me snapping their pictures while they are trying to exercise.  Instead,  I thought I'd post some character sketches of them I have composed in my head while walking and observing them.  "Mutt and Jeff" are at the Y nearly every morning.  No, those aren't their real names.   Well, I don't THINK those are their real names.  I don't actually know what their names are.  Mutt and Jeff are just the names I've given them in my head.  One of them is quite tall while the other one is short and stocky, so they remind me of those two comic strip characters.   The taller one has a full shock of white hair and appears to be fit and stron...

It was a snowy Sunday. Here are a few pictures from my house today. Great big flakes of fluffy snow fell giving us about three inches of new cover. It's a bit too early to be thinking about planting any morning glory seeds out here yet. Weather like this isn't very conducive to walking outside, so I have to take my walk inside. I took some pictures of the YMCA where I go to walk on the indoor track. The indoor track is on the second floor and looks out over a large gymnasium area that holds two basketball courts. There is a second basketball court on the other side of the large blue and white curtain you see here. In addition to basketball, this gymnasium is also used for volleyball games and for aerobic and step classes. Twelve laps around the track equals one mile. I try to walk 24 laps to total a two mile walk when I come here, but sometimes it is a little more or a little less. You can see some of the exercise equipment here on one side of the track. There is more ...