Oh what a beautiful day

I'm joining up with Ms. Debbie at Friday Foto Friends to share my day yesterday. Our weather was amazing. But first, let's back up a week. One week ago this past Tuesday and Wednesday, we had about 2-3 inches of snow dropped in just an hour or two and extremely frigid temperatures. I didn't leave my house for two days because it was too cold to even go out on the porch for me.

Then by Thursday most of the snow was gone and God blessed us with an amazing beautiful sunrise. Over the course of the next few days, the temps steadily begin to climb.

The higher temperatures resulted with yesterday being in the 70's. It was a text book perfect day. I was able to get my work done an hour early so I got to leave work at 4:00 which got me home in time to change clothes and head over to a local park to walk around the track.

As you can see, it may have been spring temps, but it is still dry winter grown. Look at the brown grass. But I can handle the dry grass when the day was as beautiful as yesterday was.

The walking trail has some ups and downs, but they are gentle slopes so it is an easy walk and I walked at a fast clip. I haven't walked in over a year and I want to incorporate walking as part of my regimen to lose weight.

It was such a perfect day. White fluffy clouds, a gentle breeze blowing.

 There were a lot of people out at the park. There was one young teen with his girlfriend and they were flying kites out by the baseball field. The wind was perfect for it.

As I was making what I decided would be my last lap around because I didn't want to end up there when dusk came, I saw a beautiful sunset starting in the west.

Obviously, I snapped a bunch of pics to try to get a good one. These aren't great but they aren't too bad either.

Then when it was all said and done, I checked the new pedometer app I had downloaded. I did 2.27 miles in 46 minutes. I wasn't sure how good that was so I talked with my friend who knows all about exercise and diet. He said this was actually terrific. So I am very proud of myself. Plus I am still drinking mostly water with just one soft drink per day. Although, the other day I drank 74 oz. of water and NO SOFT DRINKS.

But alas all good things must come to an end. We woke up today after a very rainy, windy night to this weather. So instead of another 70+ degree day, we are going to be luck to get up in the 40's. Mother Nature is not our friend.

 

A friend of mine hit the nail on the head when she posted this on Facebook this morning. 

Well, I will take whatever good days I can get until spring officially arrives to stay. Even though the crazy weather left me with a head cold that is finally going away. I just have the lingering, horrible, dry hacking cough. I coughed so much that sometime when I talk my voice doesn't work right. I hope everybody has a great weekend.