Just a Monday

This is the Peaks of Otter as seen from my house. Well, you have to move a little bit below the tree line to see it, but not far. I shot this yesterday using the zoom. The sky was a little hazy. I haven't been to the top of the Peaks in years.

I spent the morning writing articles, then I went to the grocery. I ran into someone there I had not seen in at least 20 years. We were once very good friends and shared some strange and interesting times. Some of those times bordered on illegal but included things like going to see a particular style of movie together to celebrate one of us turning 18 (which was the age at which you were supposed to be able to legally watch this kind of movie). This was at a drive-in movie theater (so it was a long time ago) and I still remember a couple of guys walking by the car and then stopping to stare at us. One of them called out, "Hey, there's a couple of chicks here watching this!" as if it was okay for a truckload of guys to be there but not two girls. Oy vey.

We also went to concerts together at Lakeside Amusement Park. This was during 1981, I think it was. I can't remember who we went to see but they were "B" listers, not top draws, generally speaking. But we did that the entire summer, going nearly every Saturday night.

So anyway, we stood in the aisle in the grocery store talking for a very long time. She lives only about three miles from me and has for years. I can't believe we've lived so close and never once ran into one another. On top of that, she works at the same bank as my sister-in-law and never made the connection. We parted with absolutely no plans to see one another again. Which is probably just as well.