When the temperature reaches the high 20s at the end of September, you really have to go outside. So I put away my work and went for a walk around the lake.
The fall colours–yellow ash and elm and poplar trees–were lovely. Soon the trees will be bare.
I saw a couple of unusual things: a group riding through the park in a wagon pulled by a pair of Clydesdales, and Ralph Goodale, local Liberal MP and former cabinet minister, getting his photograph taken by the lake.
I’ve walked this route so many times, and I never expect to see anything new. But this time I did: in the lawn by the skateboard park, I found a patch of my favourite native prairie grass, blue grama. I was really surprised, because tame grasses tend to overwhelm and outcompete native ones.
What a great way to spend part of an afternoon. Even better, I met my friend Glenn for a beer afterwards. I do like a cold beer after a long walk!
