Doormats on a Rainy Afternoon

In my February 1^st post, I included hallwalking on a list of rainy day pastimes.  It has rained for three days, so yesterday, while waiting for our take-out Valentine’s Day dinner from On The Rocks (delicious!), I again walked all of the hallways back and forth on all five floors of the condo building, and then repeated again.  This time I brought my GPS watch with me and discovered that the distance was two miles.

The wind kept blowing rain in my face, but I remained mostly dry.  I passed only two people during my hallwalking, one younger man with a nice-looking spotted dog, and a woman I had seen before with two dogs on leashes.  She looked startled as I rounded the corner, and I quickly explained.  “I’m like your dogs.  I need regular exercise!”  She laughed.  I saw from the end of the hallway that a third dog-owner was out on the lawn in a raincoat bundled against the 42-degree rain and wind.  It would be an unwelcome chore to have to take a dog out in weather like this, I thought.

I had noticed last time that every unit here has a different kind of mat at the front door, most of them nautically themed.  I had my phone with me, so this time I took a photo of all of the mats that looked interesting.  I would have frightened someone very badly had they opened their front door and found me standing there, phone in hand, taking a picture of their doormat.  It would not have been easy to explain myself.  But fortunately everybody was snugly ensconced in their condos, as anybody naturally would be who was not (a) a dog owner or (b) not right in the head.

So here is a compilation of my photos, which I may have to enter in the next show at our local art gallery The Bascom in Highlands.  I shall entitle it, “Doormats on a Rainy Afternoon.”