a windy day in the city

thursday me and miss rabbit decided to take a jaunt downtown to see what the stores had to offer. that, and i needed to find mother k a birthday gift. her birthday is on election day. yikes.

walking downtown is always shady business. there are the people in black smoking who knows what around the plaza tree, there is the homeless man parked on a bench with his dog holding out a cup saying "trick or treat" and when that doesn't work "you are such beautiful ladies!", and there is the occasional drunken man foisting pamphlets on unsuspecting patrons. yes, shady business indeed, and it's even only daytime.

so running into the entire gamut of shady peoples, our day in the city was quite interesting. miss rabbit recognized she had a hankering for a candy apple and i found some perfect gifts and an even more perfect card for mother k's day.

on the way home, it turned into quite a windy day in the city. rather a day full of hurricane force winds.

walking back under an ominous grey sky we had no idea what nature had in store for us. all of a sudden light airy winds turned into powerful 100 mph gusts. leaves were whipped up into cyclones and thrown at our faces and unprotected arms with violent strength. we struggled against the headwind pushing our frail bodies back with no remorse. pine needles were blown into the sky and torpedoed down with precise direction at our targeted faces. our long hair was vertical and flailing in the mid afternoon bluster, and the only thing saving our vulnerable eyes were our sunglasses.

finally we arrived home, safe and intact. with stomachs that were hurt and cramping from hysterical laughter.

and that was our windy day in the city.