Thanks again to Elisabeth for this community movement activity! Last week’s colour was red. This week, I noticed ORANGE. Orange does not occur as naturally in nature as red, at least not in Spring. Yet, if I took the effort to notice, I found some orange in surprising places.
Monday 4/6: Hike with the kids at Blockhouse Point Trail. These leaves are orange-ish:
And this Cadbury Mini Egg:
And a view of the Potomac – not orange, but still beautiful:
Tuesday 4/7: Ran around the track at the middle school after dropping the kids in the morning. There were orange pylons:
And the orange chest of a Robin:
Also- Kwanza cherry blossoms are in full bloom:
Wednesday 4/8: 10 minute walk in park while the 14 year old is at her morning piano lessons. Spotted these orange poop bags:
I think that orange bag is actually one of those bags the Washington Post comes in; the neighbors stock this poop bag stand. Funny story – we were at this park one time when the middle child was 3 or so. He was getting pretty close to being toilet trained, so I didn’t bring a diaper bag with me. Well, he ended up having an enormous poop at the playground. I didn’t have anything on me, so i pulled a couple poop bags from this box, took off his pants and underwear, and wrapped a plastic bag around him and put the dirty clothes in another bag. It was probably one of my most AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! moments of young motherhood.
Thursday 4/9: Walk to the Co-op on my lunch break to pick up some groceries for dinner. Saw so many flashes orange on my way.
These cute decorative banner:
This house’s fence is decorated with many fun DC-centric banners.
Safety visibility flags, for people to wave as they cross the street.
Rainbow crosswalk – same crosswalk as last week, just moved down one stripe:
Random sign:
Evening- went contra- dancing with the family and mu skirt was orange:
Friday 4/10: Walked the kids to school and took the long way back to the car, through the woods. Saw various utility company markings, spray painted in orange.
Saturday 4/11: I didn’t get a walk in this day because I went from Service to work to B’not Mitzvah party: But I did do 15 minutes of yoga and 10 minutes with the dumbells.
Sunday 4/12:
Neighborhood walk with the 14 year old. We walked the path she takes to school and she gave us her inner monologue commentary all the way there. It was such a nice walk for the time we got to spend together and also for the insights into her thoughts. She’s walked this path almost every school day for the past three years and I’m kind of sad it’s coming to an end.
Saw this bush with oramge flowers:
These orange plyons:
And this vintage car. I actually have seen this car several times, so I made sure to circle back here to look for it for CBWC orange week.
Then after dinner, I took an evening walk with the 6 and 9 year olds while the Husband took the 14 year old to swimming. It was getting dark so not a lot of orange spotting, but the warm glow of this street lamp was orange to me:
That’s week two! Next week’s post will be all about YELLOW!
Do you have any favorite orange things?
Yep, I definitely call them pylons! Now I’m going to be on the lookout for orange things all day. Love this exercise!
Team pylon!!
Pylons all the way; never ANYTHING else where I come from. I love little language quirks like this.
Is it a Canadian thing, I wonder? I don’t hear it as much in the US. But Jenny says pylon too…
No, those are NOT pylons. They are cones. Pylons are set into the ground and go up vertically. Crazy that so many people say they are. That’s crazy. I just looked it up and the FOURTH DEFINITION is some North American usage of “a movable cone-shaped object that is used to separate off or close sections of a road.” That’s insane to me. Watch my head explode at regional variation in English. How do we even end up communicating with each other?
Pylon wars! I feel like a gauntlet is being thrown down, Engie!!!