A Beautiful Day

Today started out like most of my days. I waked to the bus in the snow and got into work. I had a doctor's appointment in the morning and rode TRAX up to 9th East and walked to the office on about 100 South. The appointment went well and I received good news about my ear, which has been bothering me.

A little history - my ears have bothered me for years, with echoing and a feeling that fluid has been stuck in them. This happened again a few weeks ago when I was swimming a few times. I had to halt my swimming / exercise for a few weeks when I developed a cold. This exasperated the fluid feeling and I also felt like an infection was building the last couple of days, as my ears were getting sore.

Fortunately, the doctor only saw a little swelling and it looks like they are clearing up. He also verified a method of taking care of "swimmer ear", which I had researched - to put a mixture of rubbing alcohol and vinegar in the ear, to evaporate the water. He put a similar solution in my ear and it feels much better.

I decided to walk all the way back to work and because I was in a good mood, the weather was nice, and the snow was beautiful, I got to thinking. I decided to take a picture or pictures on a walk each day and blog about them. I took the following pictures of the snow in the trees, which I really enjoy to see. I also posted one to Facebook, with the same caption as this title entry. I thought about how it is so easy to complain about the weather, when there really is beauty to see it in every day.

All of the pictures were taken in about the same location on 1st south, about 8th East. It truly was a beautiful day for a walk.