It was another hot one today so I got out for a walk in the morning, setting out on a quest for some on-sale orange juice for Cindy. I headed over to Cook Street, picking the shadiest side of the streets, until I got to the Root Cellar for an air conditioned ice bath. Root Cellar is my anchor point; the most expensive place in town in almost all cases. Anything else would count as "on-sale".
From Root Cellar I went down Cook to Dallas Road. It was really heating up so I relished the cool breeze that hit once I got one block from the ocean. It's truly lovely. I drank up the breeze and then headed along the walking path, west to Menzies Street.
I still can't get over how lucky we are to live so close to the ocean, where I can catch a cool breeze and check out the tides. It was calm today, with the water like glass and only broken up by boat of all sizes. Small fishing boats, a whale watching boat, a tugboat pulling a barge, a massive container ship and more between my vantage point and the Olympic Mountains. The mountains were covered in cloud, so it felt like I was out in a calm sea, even though I was still on the shore.
From Menzies, it was inland to the grocery store where I found legitimate on-sale OJ ($2.50 off!) and then tracked back home by way of the good book boxes.
Dahlias may be my new favourite flower.
This water main break closed the Cook St. Starbucks today.