a ham white down

you know, they didn't get the leaves that day. instead, we had large snow-covered piles until friday, and since then there has been a lot of rain and so forth, so the streets (in our neighborhood at least) are covered in mashed-up leaf detritus, so the dissolved organic matter/nutrient loads should be fabulously large this year.

the dead deer took me by surprise. of course it makes sense, but i don't recall ever seeing one out here, close to the office park. several of my co-workers have mentioned a coyote that hangs out in the field just east of the airport (near the city's drinking water wells, the ones not yet contaminated with 1,4-dioxane); i've not seen it, but am on high alert. as alert as a fellow can be to coyotes, that is, when he is trying not to be run off the road by semi-trailers.



it has gotten colder, as predicted. i've switched to knobbies, even though last week's snow has been washed away; it's only a matter of time before there is more. it was a little scary getting up the robin hills of vesper heights last week, where the wet snow had begun to solidify and the slick tires on my bike couldn't get much traction. i nearly went down a couple of times. anyways i'm ready.

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