52 Card Project 2022: Week 31: Walk
Aug. 5th, 2022 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrI'm definitely feeling better: the supplements and the resumption of Sleep Boot Camp seem to be working.
In part of my quest to get healthier, I am going for more walks. I have settled on three routes: around Lake Nokomis, inside the Mall of America (when it gets really hot), and a lovely secluded little walk I found close to my home, along Minnehaha Creek. I usually start at a point about a mile from my home, at Minnehaha Avenue and Bloomington Avenue, and end it with a visit of homage to the Minnehaha Creek Bunny statue on Portland Avenue. This is an especially lovely route--there is a paved path, but a strip of woods runs along it, and there is an unpaved path within those woods, running along the creek. Walking along the unpathed path, you'd think yourself deep within the woods rather than in the center of a city. I particularly like this walk because it's totally shaded, very useful on hot, sunny days. At times, the path gives a good view of the lovely homes and gardens along the creek, and at other times, it's totally secluded within the trees.
The walks are working. My resting heart rate has dropped 13 beats per minute within the past month.
This card gave me a bit of frustration at first, because I was trying to figure out a new collage technique: how to insert photos into shapes. I was baffled initially because I could make the shape, but if I rotated them to make them fit, the photos would be in the wrong orientation--until I figured out that I could flip the photo before flipping the shape, and then when I inserted it and reoriented the shape, the photo would be in the correct position. It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure this out.
Image description: four intersecting triangles form the collage with a diamond shape overset over the intersection point in the center. Bottom triangle shows a brass statue of a reclining bunny. Right triangle looks over the water of a still lake with a brilliantly blue sky overhead (Lake Nokomis). Left triangle: the shaded "forest" path that runs alongside Minnehaha Creek. Upper triangle: the Mall of America logo on the side of a building. Center: a flower garden with yellow and pink flowers.
Walk
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In part of my quest to get healthier, I am going for more walks. I have settled on three routes: around Lake Nokomis, inside the Mall of America (when it gets really hot), and a lovely secluded little walk I found close to my home, along Minnehaha Creek. I usually start at a point about a mile from my home, at Minnehaha Avenue and Bloomington Avenue, and end it with a visit of homage to the Minnehaha Creek Bunny statue on Portland Avenue. This is an especially lovely route--there is a paved path, but a strip of woods runs along it, and there is an unpaved path within those woods, running along the creek. Walking along the unpathed path, you'd think yourself deep within the woods rather than in the center of a city. I particularly like this walk because it's totally shaded, very useful on hot, sunny days. At times, the path gives a good view of the lovely homes and gardens along the creek, and at other times, it's totally secluded within the trees.
The walks are working. My resting heart rate has dropped 13 beats per minute within the past month.
This card gave me a bit of frustration at first, because I was trying to figure out a new collage technique: how to insert photos into shapes. I was baffled initially because I could make the shape, but if I rotated them to make them fit, the photos would be in the wrong orientation--until I figured out that I could flip the photo before flipping the shape, and then when I inserted it and reoriented the shape, the photo would be in the correct position. It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure this out.
Image description: four intersecting triangles form the collage with a diamond shape overset over the intersection point in the center. Bottom triangle shows a brass statue of a reclining bunny. Right triangle looks over the water of a still lake with a brilliantly blue sky overhead (Lake Nokomis). Left triangle: the shaded "forest" path that runs alongside Minnehaha Creek. Upper triangle: the Mall of America logo on the side of a building. Center: a flower garden with yellow and pink flowers.
Click here to see the 2022 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2021 gallery.
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Date: 2022-08-05 07:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-08-05 11:34 pm (UTC)I'm glad you're feeling more like yourself. B12 deficiency is quite a thing (she says, refilling her pill box with little pinkish capsules).
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Date: 2022-08-06 04:19 pm (UTC)K.