I needed to get out for a little while after sitting in a cool house today for work, so I took off work a little early and decide to go visit Los Poblanos Open Space off of Montgomery west of 4th street.

I took my camera with me, as always, because I figured there would be some birds around, and I might be able to get a few good shots of them.

When I arrived at the lot by the fields, there were about 10 cars in the gravel lot. The sky was clear. The air was cool, but not cold, and in my hoodie and knit cap, I was comfortable.

And I walked for a bit, just to get my legs moving and my blood moving and my brain moving.

There are often cranes in the southwest corner of the nearest field to the parking lot, and there was a cluster of them there today.

When you leave the parking lot, there are paths that navigate around the fields of the space like a figure-eight. You walk north, and then you can go left or right, and to your left, dissect a large field, or by going right, circle a smaller field. I walked to the central intersection and turned left, because around several hay bales to the northwest, another cluster of cranes picked at the ground.

I walked by them and then circled back past them by taking a path on the north edge of that field, and then as the sun fell, I returned near the criss-crossing paths in the center of the space, and I stopped at the intersection to watch the sun fall.

Oliver the bird.

I had my camera and I took quite a few photos, but when I got home and looked at a sampling of them, they were meh to me. Many blurs- again. On a day when I felt I was getting better taking photos. And as the sky started to darken at dusk, the blurs in my photos increased even more.

One day I’ll figure that camera thing out, hopefully.

The Sandias went a lovely shade of watermelon, and then as the sky fell into a deep purple, each group of cranes finally sprung into the sky and bleated as it flew west for its roost at the river.

I don’t walk enough. I appreciate how getting out makes your eyes see new things, which makes your brain process new thoughts, and some of those cobwebs in there get knocked down.

But still, I should just walk more, because my body wants me to.

Twilight “stained glass”.