fall surprises
Shit! i erased 10 minutes of blogging just like that. What a friggin' idiot. well..
number one (again): indian summer temps. can you believe i rode to work today in shorts and short-sleeves. this a.m. the temp was a balmy 70 degrees, on the 9th of Nov. do doubt. GREAT weather. and the afternoon was just as good with a pleasant 76 with dappled sun and a good, fresh breeze. sort of makes you love Global Warming, doesn't it? and let's hope some of this weather will stave off those predicted 4x natural gas prices this winter.
number two: leaves. and when i'm discussing leaves, I speak to that really tactile cruch and snap that you get riding over leaves in the fall. i noticed it specifically this a.m., wherein, in the dark i think i noticed that kind of thing a little more. more interestingly, this p.m. i forgot about the experience but was reminded on the BluegrassDitch trail where there are PLENTY of leaves under tire. of course, these 'crunchy' leaves in dry conditions become nightmare in the wet, so i'll take them when i can.
number three: i saw a nice scene today right around Hogan's fountain on the way home. i had come up the hill and looked to my left in the field after the fountain and saw hundreds of blackbirds. these looked too small to be crows, but blacker than starlings. maybe that's what they were, but my guess was Grackles, if that's the right term. what really jazzed me was when a flock took to flight. imagine an image of 100 black, black birds in the foreground with the browns, oranges, reds, and yellows of fall as a backdrop. Great contrast and a summary of every Halloween color scheme ever presented. too bad i have no pic.
well, more good mileage today. i left early, for some reason, where my a.m. commute took me through Cherokee and across Oak. in the p.m. i took ?that damn road parallel to Shelby sort of?, gotta get the name of that, down to Market, right onto the BeargrassDitch trail coming out at the park. a spin through Cherokee and home via that great street of Casselberry and through Seneca Gds. Really nice ride and pretty good speed too, given my sloth of late.
18.5m total/8 a.m./10.5 p.m./14.3 avgp.m./75 with a stiff SW wind but great fall images.
number one (again): indian summer temps. can you believe i rode to work today in shorts and short-sleeves. this a.m. the temp was a balmy 70 degrees, on the 9th of Nov. do doubt. GREAT weather. and the afternoon was just as good with a pleasant 76 with dappled sun and a good, fresh breeze. sort of makes you love Global Warming, doesn't it? and let's hope some of this weather will stave off those predicted 4x natural gas prices this winter.
number two: leaves. and when i'm discussing leaves, I speak to that really tactile cruch and snap that you get riding over leaves in the fall. i noticed it specifically this a.m., wherein, in the dark i think i noticed that kind of thing a little more. more interestingly, this p.m. i forgot about the experience but was reminded on the BluegrassDitch trail where there are PLENTY of leaves under tire. of course, these 'crunchy' leaves in dry conditions become nightmare in the wet, so i'll take them when i can.
number three: i saw a nice scene today right around Hogan's fountain on the way home. i had come up the hill and looked to my left in the field after the fountain and saw hundreds of blackbirds. these looked too small to be crows, but blacker than starlings. maybe that's what they were, but my guess was Grackles, if that's the right term. what really jazzed me was when a flock took to flight. imagine an image of 100 black, black birds in the foreground with the browns, oranges, reds, and yellows of fall as a backdrop. Great contrast and a summary of every Halloween color scheme ever presented. too bad i have no pic.
well, more good mileage today. i left early, for some reason, where my a.m. commute took me through Cherokee and across Oak. in the p.m. i took ?that damn road parallel to Shelby sort of?, gotta get the name of that, down to Market, right onto the BeargrassDitch trail coming out at the park. a spin through Cherokee and home via that great street of Casselberry and through Seneca Gds. Really nice ride and pretty good speed too, given my sloth of late.
18.5m total/8 a.m./10.5 p.m./14.3 avgp.m./75 with a stiff SW wind but great fall images.
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