Wed 4/8/09

A Daily Walk With DietPower

Walking is the best exercise for weight loss. And the things you see!

A freak April squall turned this lawn sculpture on Middle River Road into a real-life snow globe today. The air temperature was 41 degrees. Flakes landing on the pavement melted in five seconds. Those caught in the grass lingered longer, sometimes flitting from blade to blade in the wind.

The gray cone in the background, about which I always imagine the children are talking, is a concrete gnome who, like me, has gone gray with age. Unlike me, however, he never seems to roam.

About this page: Precisely at noon each day, I step out of my office for a 3.5-mile walk around my Connecticut neighborhood. I carry a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TX5 pocket camera with a Leica 10x optical zoom lens. My object is to make an interesting photograph of at least one thing that is different that day. I post the results here, hoping they will inspire you and your friends to walk, too.  —Terry Dunkle, DietPower founder and CEO.

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All My Yesterdays

Tuesday, April 7: Egg Trees, Connecticut Style

Monday, April 6: I Carry My Lunch

Sunday, April 5: A Tree in Spring

Saturday, April 4: Pigs with Drivers Licenses

Friday, April 3: Forsythia

Thursday, April 2: Skunk Cabbage II

Wednesday, April 1: Mystery of the Hanging Shoes

Tuesday, March 31: Downy Woodpecker

Monday, March 30: 300-Year-Old House

Sunday, March 29: The Broken Fence

Saturday, March 28: "You're Such a Delight"

Friday, March 27: Skunk Cabbage

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