Meet Mr. Creepy
May 25, 2010
Tuesday I couldn’t decide if I wanted to go to Huntley Meadows, but the traffic made the decision for me. After barely moving on Duke Street for 20 minutes, I turned around and made a run on Holmes Run Park in Alexandria.
The weather was great, but the sightings were not.
When I first arrived in the park I spent a few minutes birdwatching, but nothing was in range for a shot.
The blue jays are back out. If you’ve been following this site for a while, you know I’ve been trying for a while to get a good shot of one. I’m hoping that this might be the year.
There were a few insects out and my limited success involved a simple moth.
Then I met my own personal stalker. Wait, are you confused? Well, so was I.
As I scanned the perimeter of the woods I noticed a man some distance away staring in my direction. Then without explanation, he slid behind a bush and continued to watch me. Let’s just call him Mr. Creepy. Preferring avoidance, I went down to the waterfront, where I was out of range of Mr. Creepy. Thinking it was over, I didn’t expect to look up and see that he had repositioned himself in the woods along my line of sight, and was still watching me. Hm. This seemed like a good time to cross the waterway. As I was doing that, Mr. Creepy attempted to casually walk down to the waterfront and stroll in my direction.
Regardless of his motives, that was enough and I double-timed it to the other side, concluding the creepy-phase of the outing.
Then I finished the evening after scanning some of the paths through the woods with limited results. You win some, you lose some. And then some just stalk you.
May 26, 2010 at 2:27 pm
yikes.