It seems I did not take the first picture this week. I took quite a few, actually, but they’re earmarked for later display on the site, so I don’t have any pictures for this space.
So I’ll just look at the stats and pull the most popular images that you’ve viewed this month. In order of popularity, then:
Playing in the yard on a beautiful January afternoon:
Catching the light just right — not bad for the phone, riding in a moving car:
The Cateye on my bicycle:
The least viewed shot I’ve uploaded this month:
Not missing much there, are you?
We went on a great ride this afternoon. The sun was out, the air was just on this side of being warm and everything was perfect. I took The Yankee out of town and into the next community over, through their downtown and then out the back into the countryside.
We rode on a road that absolutely had an uphill gradient, but it felt like I was going downhill with legs and speed to spare in my highest gear. At the end of that road we were almost at the halfway point. It felt like that halfway point of the roller coaster too, because after that stop sign you drop about a 150 feet in three tenths of a mile. Again, these aren’t real ascents and descents we have here. But I may have been speeding, so they’re real enough.
Anyway, by the time I’d meandered my way home on a not-so-direct route I’d accumulated 36.5 miles on the day. As I said on Twitter I looked, once again, like a guy pretending to be a poor cyclist rather than a guy with a bike. So top form! It all felt great, right until the end. I guess I can start putting a few more miles back into the routine, then.
Had Italian for dinner at a place called Ma Fia’s. So clever! The way they made that play on words! Good stuff for small town Italian, though. We’ve been there twice now and have enjoyed both trips.
Finished up a few projects after dinner. Got everything together for tomorrow’s first day back in class. And now I’m going to go ignore the protests of my dead legs.
Still just a guy being pulled around by a bike, then. Heh.
