First run of April 2013 will be in Schenley Park - meet at the Wendy Bennett Trailhead (below the Oval, at the intersection of Bartlett and what we think of as the Boulevard but has a different name at that point).
As Judy commented there is a breath of Spring in the form of new beginnings in the air - Passover has just passed and this is Easter Sunday, yesterday the sun came out and it was 50+ degrees.
In honor of the holiday we tried to visit the Shrine of the Blessed Mother - which now has a Facebook Page - but we were stopped by a small deer trapped by the surrounding fence. There were deer on the hillside above and we were not sure how that lone deer made it over the fence but we decided to back out and leave the gate open in hopes that the stray would find its way to is herd. This seemed to have some Easter significance.
We took off into Oakland viewing the apartment house that burned this week, rediscovering Oakland Square with its sweeping views of Panther Hollow and finding a new set of stairs leading down to the small community below. We climbed back up the stairs near the Schenley Park Visitors Center to find people making pancakes on the porch for the attendees of the Sunrise Service being held near the Playground across the bridge (Google maps says it is Dinosaur Park???). It was an eventful run for a holiday and that is not even mentioning the difficulties people had even getting to Phipps due to the buggy race road closures.
In keeping with this unexpected obstacles theme, Common Place was closed, so we went back to Coffee Tree. We had a Seder recap and there were some very interesting ones, strong EE Runner recommendations for Yoga Teachers Linda Meacci and Richard Gartner, a vote for clothes shopping at Target and of course another Costco discussion.
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