Clear, Cold, Lake's Open, Birds Chirping

7:44

Kinney's Run

Choppy Lake from Beach in Lakewood

Up at 6:30 to a pink/orange sky off to the east, then a brilliant sunrise, with a blue sky, light clouds, and cold, about 22 degrees.  The snow, yesterday's dusting, is gone and it look like a great day for a hike or walk, as the cold air feels invigorating, even at 7:00 in the morning.  I just finished listening to Car Talk and am waiting for Only A Game, after the news.  It's strange to see the lake, with ripples, moving towards the south, so different from a windy yesterday, with white caps, and a frozen lake.

Yesterday was a lazy day, beginning with a small group at Yoga, not like the previous day.  I don't think this class, called eclectic yoga is as popular as the more relaxing Vin.  And the group, at least yesterday, tended to spend too much time talking, not enough time on actual yoga. My impatience briefly reared its ugly head in class.  Because Evie had a cold, she decided to take another day off, a good idea, as she relaxed, for once, most of the day.  I did walk the Woodlawn/Victoria woods around 5:00, a easy but fun half hour walk, through mostly woods  but returning I walk along the lake, from Johnson's home.

We had spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, with salad, then watched a quirky Indie movie called Baghdad Cafe, set in California on the Mojave Desert.  A plump, middle aged German Fraulein, a tourist, is abandoned by her husband or boyfriend, in the middle of nowhere, and she ends up dragging her suitcase to the cafe and motel, about as abandoned, desolate and decrepit as you can imagine.  The family which runs it fits the setting, an African American woman, husbandless, with two teenagers, a grandson, with a Native American cook, and two lodgers, Jack Palance, a hippy/painter, and a lady tattoo artist.  This improbable beginning slowly grabs the audience, as Jasmine, the German, slowly brings order, efficiency, and hope to this family and its life.  She slowly wins over the children, then the reluctant Mom, turns the cafe into a successful center of food and entertainment.  Everything goes well until her green card expires and she must leave.  All's well that ends well, as she returns, agrees to marry Jack Palance, thus no need of a  green care, and all six live happily every after, or so it seems.