Butterflies in December

More progress today as I make that slow journey of recovery back to fitness again - another acupuncture treatment today, and then a hard four-mile walk (partly up Big Bearpen) which included two half-mile intervals.  I felt that I could have run a mile without stopping,but I am struggling to maintain the progress I have already made.

And what a gorgeous day it was this afternoon!  Bright horizontal clouds, and behind them a gleaming winter sun low in the afternoon sky.  It felt like mid-April rather than mid-December.  Yesterday I was actually painting two new doors for the sunroom outside, under the covered deck - in itself a little unusual for this time of year, but I did not expect gnats to be buzzing around my face!  (And why do gnats seem to have enough brainpower to realize when its victim is holding a paint brush, or a stone for a new wall, or otherwise has his hands occupied).  Harry at the paint store told me that someone had come in earlier and said they saw a butterfly!  Imagine what a bewildered butterfly might be thinking as he flutters around my neighbor's just-blooming forsythia!

Enjoy it while we can, fellow roadrunners and roadwalkers.  Cold weather will arrive eventually - probably about the time when I am capable or running once again. . .