I\u2019m in Philly now, staying with friends. They live in a boutique-y part of the city called Chestnut Hill. The homes and businesses and churches here are built with dark, local stone. The kind that seems to absorb light on rainy nights.<\/p>\n
My friends complain of the cold. I smile. It\u2019s not cold here. If there\u2019s one thing the North Country can teach you, it\u2019s how to make friends with winter.<\/p>\n
But in Philly, it\u2019s still fall. Plenty of trees have lime green leaves at the bottom and fiery red tops. They look like slowly exploding fireworks.<\/p>\n
This is a good transition point between the North Country and Denver. I can once again walk to a seemingly endless variety of shops and restaurants. Traffic, real city traffic is alien to me. Horns honk. Cars whiz by and I double- and sometimes triple-check the roads before crossing.<\/p>\n
Navigating this kind of landscape is something I\u2019ll have to re-learn.<\/p>\n
But strolling the main avenue is so fun: the signs and shop displays. The farm stand at the corner bursting with produce and people. It\u2019s life and a lot of it.<\/p>\n
Punctuating all this, a flock of swallows shoots out of some trees across the street, swirls around in the wind overhead and ducks into the greenery of a nursery just a few steps in front of me. <\/p>\n
I am flying, too. It\u2019s time to load up and get back on the road. I\u2019ll send pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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