Clouds

At one point I had a 40-mile ride from Blue Licks State Park via some nice gravel to the in-laws planned, but time and Mother Nature caught up to me. Given our need to be at a visitation by 5.00, I didn't have enough time to do the mixed-terrain loop. Bummer! I mentally change tack to still leave from BLSP but proceed directly to the in-laws. As we approached, things resulted much stranger. Temps in the 'Ville and towards the NE hovered around 100F, for which I had brought a cooler, 3 bottles and plans to visit a store in Ellisville. Approaching BLSP, we encountered an impressive lightening storm just in our path, followed shortly by gale, sideways winds. I'll ride in rain, but not in lightening like we saw. More bizarrely, in about one half mile, temps dropped from around 100F to 80F; I could see it drop on the car thermometer. Within about 2 miles, it had gone all the way from 101F to the lowest temp of 73F. That's what I call a cold front!!

I decided to ditch the BLSP ride entirely, head to the in-laws and catch whatever miles I could, in this case a very truncated 13m loop. Given the lack of epic nature of the ride, I'll just let a few images tell the story of a peaceful, rural bike ride. I could be frustrated, but why bother? I rode a little harder than usual and even descended a bit to climb some more. The clouds from the storm to the south were very cool, so here they are:

Country bike, in the country

Hay

Cloud and soybeans

Cloud and tobacco. Bet you don't see that much?

storm clouds to the south along Key Pike

Cloud

Cloud and old house

Intertwining field, I think of more soybeans and grass