Late Rising

I slept last night in half-hour increments, it seemed. With a couple of windows open, it may have been simply the noise coming from the streets, but for whatever reason I didn't feel all that rested when I finally gave up and got out of bed early this morning. I'm still pretty grumpy. The temperature has been rising lately, but I pulled on the arm-warmers anyway and headed out toward the levee once again. It was still quite dark, thanks to the extra week's delay in making the time switch, but we ended up with a group of ten or so anyway. Elliott was back after his run-in with a car. The group arrived at the turnaround just about at sunrise, and so we had a nice view looking east over the Mississippi. If only those huge power poles weren't there spoiling the picture! John Egan and his daughter are still battling leukemia and she is at Children's for a bone marrow transplant right now. They have a website and there's also a report on the news website. We're all hoping everything goes well, as it has been a very long road for them thus far.