It is a long time until fall weather arrives. I've lived here long enough to know I'll still be wearing shorts in November. But the first day of September was cloudy and a little cooler than normal. It felt a little less like summer and a little more like fall. So I went to run at the park near the school.

I've blogged about it before. There is a little hill with a 1-mile jogging trail around the base. I like to climb over the hill as a warm up, then run around the base 1½ times. I climb over the hill once more to cool down. During the summer, it is just too hot to run during the day. I get up very early and run before breakfast, or I wait and run after dark. Either way, it's not practical to run at the park.

The birds were really happy about the cloudy weather. I could hear them chirping a symphony in the bushes. I came around one curve and scared a rabbit off the path. I like this park, because it is a little bit of country in the middle of an urban area. For the time I'm running, I feel like traffic and crowds of people are far, far away. After a 3 month absence, it is good to be back to my ole stompin ground.