who said adventures are just for weekends?

This week I've been experimenting with the bus again. Reading and discussing Living More With Less has reminded me to be intentional with things like transportation, technology, and food. And so I challenged myself to take the bus, instead of drive, to work on the days I was able. It meant getting up before 6 on Tuesday so that I could (theoretically) get to my yoga class at 6:30 (theoretically because the bus was either early or very tardy and thus I missed the first 10 minutes of my 45 minute yoga class).  It meant running into a client after yoga as I walked to catch my next bus to work. It meant spending more time with my boss when she insisted on driving me part or all the way home. 

West Irondequoit Bay Park

And it also meant that when I took the car to work yesterday I decided to take advantage of the freedom having a vehicle provided and went exploring between yoga and work. I visited a park where one of my clients told me he likes to fish. It's only a few miles from my work but somewhere I had never been before. It was so beautiful - filled with greenery and bird song with the foggy bay off in the distance. And I was giddy from the adventure and unexpectedness of it  - I couldn't help thinking that I was cheating on life by having an adventure in the morning before a busy day at work instead of waiting until the evening or the weekend to explore. I treasured the moments in the fog, the flowers, the birds, and even the swan I saw swimming on the bay. And the fifteen minute adventure brightened my whole day.  

I was joined on my adventure by a swan

Some other adventures I've had recently:
- sewing a colorful, African, patch onto an old pair of jeans
- baking bread - that finally turned out!
- daily watering and caring for the garden
- learning to make sweet tea!
- cleaning and re-arranging Fishy's tank
- packing up some stuff to send to VA with Tania