Good morning everyone on this rather cool Monday! It is winter after all, so we have to expect colder weather. And it really is not very cold yet, it was 10F (-12C) this morning, but not much wind. It will get much colder than this over the next few months. I hope to get out this week and get some more early winter photos to share with you. Personally I prefer looking at summer photos year round. As you know, I’m not really a winter person anymore. I used to like winter, though I’m not really sure why.

However, I have always preferred summer and spring as my two favorite seasons, but summer is tops on the list. I know that each season has its own beauty and I enjoy that beauty. But when the temperature is -40 and the wind is howling, the best place to stay is indoors. Yes, I have gone walking through the forest in cold weather, when the temperature reached -50F (about -46C). Only because I like doing crazy things, as most of you know. It is probably all that time outside in the cold that did it to me. Froze my brain. That is why I keep doing such crazy things all the time.

I mentioned one other day that I was going to start showing some of my favorite photos from the last 3 years. So starting today I will be doing that on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. You may remember seeing some of them, but I think that most of them will be different. Photos that I kept meaning to use, but never did for one reason or another. It is a beautiful, sunny day, but it really is not going to warm up much. Tomorrow, however, we will be back in the mid 30sF (2C), and then it gets even colder than now. It is that up and down temperature that is hard, at least on me anyway.

I went out shopping today, something that I do early Monday morning when there is not many people around. I don’t really like crowded stores for shopping, never have. So today I’m walking down an aisle, to the side so if someone wants to get past me they can, easily. I stop to pick up something and a young woman talking on her phone rammed into me. I say “rammed” because that’s what happened. She was walking and talking on her phone, not paying attention.

She nearly knocked me down, “(bleep) guy,” she said to me, “some (bleep) guy stopped in front of me, idiot.”, she said to whoever she was talking to on the phone. That is what happens when you don’t pay attention. I am glad she wasn’t pushing a cart though, that might have hurt, she was walking rather fast. Things always happen to me when I go shopping, it does add an element of fun to the trip. Oh well, my excitement for this trip. I hope you all have a marvelous Monday and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

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