Fri 4/10/09

A Daily Walk With DietPower

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

You know it's Good Friday when this display pops up on the King Street Firehouse parking lot. Like volunteer firefighters all over the nation, ours sell Easter flowers to make a few extra bucks for repairing and updating their facilities. In our case, the facilities include a dandy meeting hall where the King Street Church (just down the street) stages its annual autumn talent show and auction benefit (which I had the pleasure of photographing in 2005). In other words, the firemen are holding a fundraiser today to help the church better hold its fundraiser next fall. And to make this good old-fashioned symbiosis complete, some of these flowers will probably end up on the church's altar on Easter.

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

Thursday, April 9: Dumb as a Squirrel

Wednesday, April 8: April Snow

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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