Today was a very rainy day. I had to go on my lunchtime walk earlier than usual due to more hands-on training in the new system, and Seabird was okay with that because she said we'd avoid the rain that way. Then she said never mind, it's raining now, let's not walk. I didn't even think to ask Hardingfele, and maybe that's subconscious because I would have had to go out into the rain to get to her building, but this way I just went out and walked around my building under the overhang on the third floor. I didn't pray the rosary since the Rosary Ladies were doing so this evening, so I just listened to music on my phone as I walked. Too bad I didn't bring my wireless headphones to work. I did forget to mention that when Hardingfele and I walked at lunchtime last week, we saw a leucistic house sparrow among a flock of these invasive birds, but it was too far away to get a good photo with my phone.
For the last week, when I was working from home I would walk between the multiflora rose growing at the edge of the marsh and a neighbor's mock orange bush. They were both in bloom, and they both smelled so wonderful, but very different from each other. They were both so fragrant that you could smell them from some distance away. Yesterday they were still fragrant, but most of their blossoms were past their prime, and I suppose after all the rain we've had today, even the few good ones have been washed off. Sadly, the multiflora rose is invasive, just like the house sparrows. Here's a photo I took of it last year.
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