Sunday's run was a fine one - through Frick Park, the community gardens and the cemetery. The cemetery was all decked out for memorial day making the run holiday appropriate. We lingered long over coffee feeling those first drowsy days of summer approaching. The anticipation of vacation dies hard even after years of being away from school.
Some recommendations for area nurseries:
Brenkles Farm and Green Houses in Troy Hille: http://www.brenckle.com/
Amazing variety of annuals, perennials and vegetables spread out over lots of green houses. The plants are very healthy and the prices reasonable. Plus it is worth the little drive to get there - a bit of the country in the city!
McTighes Nursery in Glenshaw (up route 8) - it has a beer distributor attached so you can kill two errands at the same time!
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Bonus from PtB - a description of the Memorial Day run
http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/35876018
Completely by chance Iain and I planned a run in case there wasn't one for today and it was the reverse of yesterday's! But people wanted to do it and we stayed in the trees for much of it.
We were joined by Joanne from Highland Park, Pam from Morgantown (and Sq Hill of course), Susan Hunt, Sarah Wallace a new find - lives near Elaine and is a fellow Speechie from Duquesne, and many regulars.
Homewood Cemetery to the Biddle Trail where we saw a red tailed hawk below us despite being up a tree. It was the closest many had ever been. Then a toad of some description.... wild life abounded. Up the Tranquil trail (mutterings of hills....) and then back along Darlington.
Most stayed for coffee including Tom! Discussions at our end were geekily coffee focused and the question of whether wind chimes constitute noise pollution which we thought they did (despite me loving them I keep them mostly in the house). Roye noted that one of the best inventions really is the i-pod clan as we all remembered the boom-box era - now that WAS noise. I'm still ruminating the wind chime thing and might branch out into wind chime sock production to be placed over one's chime at night.
PtB
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