Part-time prevaricator
My bike ride took me down to the graveyard yesterday, and I saw some wildlife there.
Above: a crow on a headstone.
Below: a bunny enjoying the nice cool grass.
Today’s bike ride took me to Turtle Crossing.
They have such a lovely smell and such a brief season.
Update: In a bit of weird synchronicity, I posted this the day before “Wear the Lilac Day”, a day created by fans of the late Sir Terry Pratchett—one of my favourite authors—to commemorate his writing and to support research into Alzheimer Disease. Since Dad had dementia, this one strikes me a bit as “is the universe telling me something?”
I found some flowers on today’s bike ride. Enjoy.
Today I went 28km (further than I thought) and got photos of a bee at work, a couple of dead trees, and a miniature riverside inuksuk.
I went 21 km today, and saw a couple of deer at the Riverbank Discovery Centre…
…and some pigeons flying above some rocks on the edge of the river, as seen from the 1st Street Bridge.
The weather’s supposed to turn wintry again for a few days, so I took advantage of today’s nice weather for a good long bike ride—27.8km, which took about 1¾ hour or so of cycling (I stopped to take photos and to chat with a friend, so I was gone from the house for 2½ hours).
I took my camera along, too, and snapped some photos.
The contrail photo above is actually a panorama of about six photos. Compare and contrast below with a single-frame version of the same image.
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Those who know me know that I much prefer spring and summer to fall. I love the new growth of spring, and I would much rather wear shorts and T‑shirts than long johns and parkas. Autumn’s beginning brings with it the threat of inevitable winter, and it makes me somewhat melancholy.
But I will grudgingly admit that early autumn, before the cold sets in to stay, has its own charms.
Continue reading “All right, autumn can be pretty”
I went about 22km on my bike today with my camera.
…and a bunny.
I went for a bike ride on Friday and another one today, Saturday.
Friday I snapped a photo of a rabbit on BU campus.
Today, I went on a longer ride, and got photos of some of the branches downed in the storm earlier this week.
As I snapped photos, a tractor came along and started to drag the top of the pine tree off of 18th Street North. I tried to get a picture but it turned out too dark.
I found a colourful combo just off Kirkcaldy, too, that reminded me that blue + yellow = green.
And then, in the south end of town, I decided to get a couple shots of the sunflowers (and the dill) growing in the community gardens.
And then, I went home, content after a 26-km, 2‑hour bike ride.