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We went for a ride along the Chattahoochee River on Saturday, a nice 43-mile ride. The river looks like this:
And part of the ride looks like this:
Of course, as we have noted in this space before, we only go over there to ride for the breakfast. When in Columbus, visit the nice people at Plucked Up Chicken and Biscuits. You’ll thank me for it later.
Baseball that night:
And the days turn to nights and the days after, faster and faster.
We got in about 60 miles on the bikes this weekend. We went over to Columbus on Saturday, a beautiful, warm day, to ride the bulk of it. Here is the Riverwalk:
You have to time this right so you can either avoid, or run into, the maximum amount of pedestrians. Your windows are narrow over there. But look at that sky!
I thought I would take a selfie. And I did, but this one turned out even cooler:
I guess I pressed the shutter button before the sensor compensated for the light. That white background is not Photoshopped, that’s just the way it turned out.
My Specialized and the Chattahoochee:
Really we go over to Columbus to ride for the late breakfast after. Can we talk food for a second? Let’s talk food for a second. As a baby, I gave up the bottle relatively quickly. And — being raised in the deep, deep, deeeeep South — I was probably weened on biscuits and gravy. So understand: I have a frame of reference here. Plucked Up Chicken & Biscuits has the best gravy biscuit I’ve ever tasted:
And I’m from the South, of course, so I know which I speak here. Also, someone thought it’d be a good idea to lightly batter some tender chicken and then put it in a spicy pineapple marmalade. This was a good idea:
Go have some. Seriously. It’ll change your day.
Today’s roses at home:
They just bloom and bloom and require nothing of us. Pretty incredible.
What is a smattering, anyway? The word means “a small amount,” but isn’t that relative? Anyway, here are six — but I didn’t put a lot more here, so comparatively it was a small amount. Anyway.
At a baseball game this weekend I caught a foul ball. As protocol demands, I gave it to a kid.
Baseball fan for life now.
The sky was incredible on Saturday, so I took a few pictures, just to remember it:
Hanging out with Allie, who was enjoying a nice sun bath:
A view from part of my ride today. This is on the time trial route. I love this little roller. You come down from the smallest little right-hand descent and as soon as you bottom out your cockpit is pointed up again. It is fun any time of day, but, in the evening, you hear everything come to life. On one side are crickets and from the other side you hear bullfrogs:
And an odd-looking shadow portrait:
Another beautiful spring weekend. Just can’t get enough of that feeling. Here are some pictures from riding around town on my bicycle:
My shadow-portrait:
This is an uphill sprint:
Seriously, you’ll hit about 30 up that road, into right about here:
Some cool videos I’ve been collecting this weekend:
Watch all of the excitement on No. 16 in the final round of #themasters (so far) in a single videohttps://t.co/DSiF3Yikzw
— Masters Tournament (@TheMasters) April 10, 2016
Starts with a steampunk scrapbook time machine. And gets better. "Video of Old Cities Created Using Old Photographs" https://t.co/0NDCvEWHNH
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) April 9, 2016
Speaking of, How to Use Live Video to Bring Your Event to the World.
And, finally. Two guys covered a Guster song. Guster found it and covered the cover, which is typical genius:
It is a good day when you get sat and purred upon:
And this is my favorite part of the day in our home library. The sun comes in late and long and lovely.
