Part-time prevaricator
Well, for me it’s a long ride.
I got a cookie from Chez Angela alongside Richmond Ave. (not pictured), saw a fawn browsing down by the riverbank, and when I got home a robin was grooming itself on the railing of my deck. Good times.
I hopped on my bike and went over 33km today—further than I meant to go, but the weather was lovely and I was feeling good. I wish I’d brought along a proper camera, but at least I had my phone[1]The best camera, as they say, is the one you have with you.
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Footnotes
| ↑1 | The best camera, as they say, is the one you have with you |
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I came around a corner on my bike and saw a doe and her fawn on the trail. They watched me as I fished my phone out of my pocket. By the time I was snapping photos, she had disappeared into the tall grass, and little Bambi here followed shortly after.
Taken at Brandon’s Riverbank Discovery Centre.
I went about 22km and took a bunch of photos.
The trees were all starting to flower. Even the lilacs had blossoms on them.
You can talk all you want about robins redbreast, but for me the truest sign of spring is when the yellow heads of dandelions[1]Or, as the French would have it, «pissenlits». appear.
I’m glad to see the Ukrainian flag is still hangin’ in there at the public gardens, too. I imagine that I’ll be photographing sunflowers there later this summer.
Footnotes
| ↑1 | Or, as the French would have it, «pissenlits». |
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That was fun.
The Stream ‘n’ Wood Sunday morning gravel ride: 24.76km at 21km/h, starting at 9am and getting back about 10:15am.
Today I went a bit over 13km at an average speed of 17.9km/h. The new bike is definitely faster; I didn’t feel like I was putting in any particular effort, but on my old bike I’d have been doing about 15km/h, maybe 16 on a good day.
A little over 5km from my house. The above photo is a panorama of 18 photos, each 24mm, f/2.8; the resulting photo (if the online calculator is correct) is effectively 15mm, f/1.8.
Also: I like fence posts.
I went for a 25km bike ride this morning, before it got too hot outside. I ended up going a bit east of ACC’s North Hill campus, which once upon a time was the Brandon Mental Health Centre, or BMHC.
I found the BMHC cemetery, and took a few photos.
There were a lot of names on that cairn. All four sides had a plaque, and each plaque was about that full.
I even found a Johanneson on the cairn (though I doubt we’re related).
I went for a bike ride last night. I left the house about 8, got in around 9, and along the way I saw some deer grazing alongside the trail.
…and some flowers, too. Including, finally, some lilacs.
On tonight’s bike ride, I found half a dozen deer grazing in the meadow west of 34th Street. They looked like they could use the food.
