Outlook - much better....

....but I'm not holding my breath just yet.

The recent showers have helped clear up the haze, made the view out the window far more pleasant than it's been for a while.

Let's hope it holds.

Outlook - hazy

Everytime I look out the window, I think of Simon & Garfunkel's hit "A hazy shade of winter", except it's not winter yet. Someone close to me even recently commented the view outdoors looks like some hilltop minus the comfortable temperature that comes along with the altitude.

For twisted personal amusement, I use the groups of apartment blocks visible from my front door as a visual gauge - at its worst (that was last Saturday) I could barely see beyond the closest cluster of apartments.

Looks like we're fast approaching that today....sigh

Freedom is a four-letter word....

....and that word is "bike". Come haze or cyclist-intolerant drivers, there probably were many other things that could beat that feeling of cycling in the rain again after so many years (yes, it's been that long), but for that one Saturday morning, that I couldn't think of any didn't seem to matter.

Many thanks to my biking buddy and benefactor, without whom I would have forgotten how it felt :)