According to the newspaper, last week a big new mural was unveiled on the outside of one of the buildings at Elsie Allen High School in Santa Rosa. Naturally, I earmarked that as a destination, and today I pedaled down to have a look. Very nice! Also, previously unknown to me, I spotted an older … Continue reading "Elsie Allen and more"
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Read MoreHowever — I was walking on this trip because the rain was about to come. Before the rain I caught a couple of live birds about — maybe the worms are starting to surface! Love Birds? Little Bird… As Rich so aptly put it … BYE BYE BIRDIES.
Read MoreAt the garage door fiddling with the camera when something caught my eye Looks like momma fox is on her way to visit her pups? 1550E aka Hospital Road After an agonizing slow start, the crops are up and growing Crops aren’t the only thing rising in the fields This year’s crop of rocks and … Continue reading "Ride to the KBS RR +"
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Everybody knows the major holidays of each month. Many of us even know some of the minor holidays. Aside from those holidays, most of us have been surprised to see some more obscure celebrations–things like “National Bike to Work Day,” or “National Beer Appreciation Week,” or “National Love Your Dog Month.” Out of curiosity, I … Continue reading "IT’S NATIONAL ________ MONTH"
Read MoreI think this will be the final one because I have scoured every route I normally take for any and all things bird! Today we had intermittent sun and I got my last shot at some bird houses. This one tucked in the arms of a tree with a handy bird bath nearby. These next … Continue reading "MY FINAL BIRDIE STUFF POST"
Read MoreRobin contemplates a bath while sparrow looks on Too much splashing for sparrow An Unidentified Aerial Phenomena appeared in neighbors lawn overnight It may have landed somewhat like a bird? Turns out to be another neighbor’s kids kite — false alarm — sorry I called the Air Force Butcha never know what with Ace Support … Continue reading "Bye Bye Birdies"
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I was afraid of being pecked to death by those gigantic pink swallows in the picture above. Lucky for me they were friendly pink swallows . . . and FAKE pink swallows. That picture was taken in Milwaukee, WI on the last days of my bike tour. So were the next three. I’m back in … Continue reading "Birding in Wisconsin and Birding in Minnesota"
Read MoreWe RV camped on the Kitsap Peninsula this weekend (in fleeting ideal weather I will add) to watch the Grands T-ball and Little league games. Those games are a bit painful to sit through but we, and they, were happy to be there. And I got to do some short riding at ’down’ time. This … Continue reading "BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT KIND"
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Yeah, yeah, I know I’ve been doing a terrible job at offering up some birds for this month’s challenge. It’s not like I don’t have a few stored up, but I’m just getting behind. It’s not so easy being a vagabond cyclist, don’t you know? Eat, bike, blog, eat, sleep, repeat. It all takes time, … Continue reading "A meet-up in Burgundy"
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Hi folks, I’m sorry I’ve been mostly absent from the Cycle365 Bird Challenge. My excuse is that my bike tour in Wisconsin is keeping me very busy. I have managed to capture a few pictures of birds on my tour though, and it looks like this is the time for me to post them. I’ll … Continue reading "A Few More Birds"
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My ace support crew is in Peru exploring Machu Picchu and other venues with her “all women, all trails” gang. Along the way, she’s sending me bike-related photos. Read more at Bill Bikes
Read MoreReggie the Red Bird flew in from Illinois State Nice match to the Mazda Reggie Turkey Vultures 3 on the ground 1 in flight
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The Kickapoo Mountain Bike Club has a system of trails at Kickapoo State Park near Danville IL This is an area that was extensively strip mined for coal for many years The mountain bike trails run amidst the various piles of spoil and ponds The trails are rated from easy to highly technical Being a … Continue reading "Rich Goes Mountain Biking (sort of)"
Read MoreThey said rain for the mid morning and again in the early afternoon today. My usual love for early morning riding had some difficulty getting me on my bike at 8:00 because it was cold! Temps were not as low as they have been (48 this morning), but the dampness from the evening and night … Continue reading "BRRR — EARLY MORNING COLD RIDE"
Read MoreAlong 7th street this morning, a flash of yellow crossed above the road and perched in a tree. Sloooooooooooowly stopped the Raleigh, and quietly pulled the camera from my pocket. Adjusted the zoom . . . . . Hold STILL I thought! HOLD STILL! And it did 🙂 Another serendipitous shot from the driveway Turkey … Continue reading "Small and Pretty and Huge and Not so Much"
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Windy today, but otherwise lovely weather, so the Ogre and I drove down to Tolay Regional Park. The place was a giant weed patch, but I always enjoy pedaling on the old ranch roads, exploring little nooks and crannies, and fiddling with the camera. And I think at least one photo to meet requirements of … Continue reading "Tour de Weeds"
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The picture on top is from today at the Botanical Gardens. But first yesterday. Yesterday was grey with threatening clouds. We decided to ride anyway, in the morning, hoping the rain would wait until noon. We almost made it, but about two kilometers from home the clouds opened up. Janos, the optimist, hadn’t put on … Continue reading "Rain and Sun"
Read MoreAs the 1977 Chevrolet Ad stated: Now that’s more like it! Warm (Hot) temperatures and lots of wind have dried the fields to the point a cloud of dust trails the planter Fuzzy photo shot on the fly of the almost ubiquitous John Deere equipment Planting along 4000N A little farther west on 4000N Recently … Continue reading "Just Riding Around Looking at Fields"
Read MoreWell I’m in the middle of a short cycling tour around Brisbane in Queensland at the moment. Having a great time touring the countryside with a little adventure and adversity thrown in. Right now it’s pouring rain and flooding so I’ll just stay put in a small little town with a friendly pub called Kilkivan. … Continue reading "‘Holed up’ in Kilkiven"
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When it comes to Animalia Chordata Aves, one of the best spots around here is Spring Lake. That’s not far away. I walk and ride around the lake all the time. So off I went on two wheels to see what the avians were up to today. Read more at Bill Bikes
Read MoreI have thought many times in the past about these Rainlegs and finally purchased a pair. You can see more about them on my blog. Thank you Suzanne for the positive thoughts about them — you are right! I did find some bird things on my rainlegs test ride ;’-). Live birds will not stay … Continue reading "I GOT (AND LOVE) MY RAINLEGS ;’-)"
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It feels like summer now with temperatures around 24C/75F. We have been having one-layer days, just a jersey nothing over it! The last time I posted I was freezing. I looked up PEFC and found this: PEFC is the abbreviation for “Program for Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes”. This somewhat unwieldy name hides the world’s … Continue reading "Geese and other birds"
Read MoreRide down to the railroad on a beautiful morning What little breeze there was would be a tailwind back to town Raleigh leans against a signal control station OZA 102.81 is the distance south of the rail yard near Chicago On the way to the railroad we found the bird we were looking for! A … Continue reading "Raleigh scores the elusive bird"
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Almost four years ago I put together a collection of “birds and bikes” photos. So these aren’t new, but they might fit this month’s Challenge. Birds and Bikes
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In addition to that group of vultures, I’ve seen many ducks, geese, pelicans, hawks, bald eagles, great blue herons, redwing blackbirds, swallows, and songbirds. The first two days of my tour have been along the Wisconsin shores of the Mississippi River. That whole stretch is a National Wildlife Refuge, so it only seems natural that … Continue reading "I Was Right–Wisconsin Does Have Birds"
Read MoreWith nearly Zero success Ready to roll to the North Fork Lots of trees there, bound to be some birds Sometimes a blue heron will be found here Must be too early — they haven’t migrated back Raleigh points out, there may be no herons in the stream, there is one closer than that 🙂 … Continue reading "Raleigh Goes Birding"
Read MoreSuzanne pointed out that I had posted a ’bird city’. Here then is bird village. It turned out to be such a nice day (after a bit cold morning) that I ventured on a longer ride. Since I was in the same neighborhood of the village, I meandered over to the yard filled with everything. … Continue reading "IT TAKES A VILLAGE"
Read MoreWhich isn’t too terribly hard to do today In the past, seeing a flock of geese flying north or south depending on the season was quite a sight Today. geese remain here year around McFerren Park is one such place to see geese, so Huffy sets out across town to see what might be there … Continue reading "Huffy Goes on a Goose Hunt"
Read MoreJust some miscellaneous shots of bird related things, but not any REAL birds yet. And now for the video from our ride yesterday. It was kind of cool, and although I had pretty many layers on, I was feeling sensitive to the cold wind. So after a while I decided to add my rain jacket … Continue reading "Bird related pictures and a video not bird related"
Read MoreJust a ride around 3/4 of the town’s perimeter and no where not visited many times in the past Finally, this “lovely” weather has begun to cooperate so a quiet Sunday Morning ride was very welcome A little breezy but after this rotten spring very tolerable — headwind out and a nice tailwind back Just … Continue reading "Nothing Special"
Read MoreThe sky was getting mighty dark and I just knew that this partially sunny morning was about to change. But I did not realize how much it would change until shortly after I was home, not yet out of my cycling gear, and the hail came down hard. I managed to find some bird things … Continue reading "WHAT THE HAIL!"
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At least I think it’s a back kite, up there in the upper left soaring above the mountains. To be honest though I’m not really sure. I didn’t even notice it was in the picture at the time or I’d have zoomed in to be sure. No matter. It’s just an excuse to show you … Continue reading "A black kite in Annecy"
Read MoreFirst thing I know is that I want Rainlegs that Suzanne has mentioned along the way ;’-). I knew I was taking a chance this morning and the light rain did not deter me… at first. It came and went periodically and kept me guessing. Soon however, I was beginning to get cold in the … Continue reading "A RIDE IN THE RAIN FOR BIRDY THINGS"
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There is a prairie restoration area along the Lock & Dam Road that seems to attract a lot of songbirds and other small birds. The restoration project was paid for by our friends at the Pine Bend Oil Refinery, which is ten miles away. I guess they thought such an environmentally friendly act would either … Continue reading "Bird Stuff"
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Finally we’re done with graffiti and ready to move on to the May challenge. I’m sure Greg thought I’d never get with the program and will be forgiving, not noticing that this great white bird shot was taken on the last day in April, not May, on our ride to Chambéry.
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Like Valley of the Gods, Potash Road was completely unknown to me until I stumbled across it while searching for interesting day rides near Moab. Read more at Bill Bikes
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Hardly saw any birds on my ride today, the few that flew overhead didn’t alight for me to get their picture. But I knew where to look for bird feeders and bird houses. They were all at the same location which you can see in the featured picture on top. Below are close up shots.
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A short month, just 30 days and very few rides. Medical stuff kept me off my bike for several days and a trip to Italy’s Lake Garda without our bikes meant another week’s pause. On the days I could ride, the weather was fine, for cycling anyway. The farmers would have liked more rain. Here … Continue reading "Cycle Days Challenge: April 2022"
Read MoreAs it turns out, we will not be traveling to California as Susan needs more time to heal. So I put away my packing self, and got on my bike for what might be the only non-rain day for the remainder of this week ;’-). And I found some bird stuff while out and about. … Continue reading "BIRD STUFF"
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I didn’t know about Valley of the Gods before this expedition. I must have learned about it while I was searching for possible day rides. Thank goodness I found it! Now it ranks as one of my all-time favorite routes. Read more at Bill Bikes
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After all this time I’m still terrible with the French language. I’m still struggling with the basics, like simple pronunciation. So I thought Claix was pronounced to rhyme with checks, and was pleased with the cleverness of my rhyming title for this post, something Greg would undoubtedly be proud of me for. But no, Claix … Continue reading "Claix collects graffiti too"
Read MoreI see another problem cropped up, I think yesterday, from a new version of the enhanced comment plugin. It looks like there is a version compatibility issue with this plug-in and the version of PHP the site runs on. I’m not sure, but I suspect this has prevented you all from commenting on posts. I … Continue reading "No Comment?"
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Because Monument Valley farther east was closed to bicycles, I wanted to find an alternative ride for a couple of hours today to go along with the drive to Mexican Hat in the southeastern corner of Utah. Read more at Bill Bikes
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After driving from Santa Rosa to Barstow, the next day Old Grumble-Face and the Ogre reached St George in the extreme southwestern corner of Utah with plenty of time for a ride. I already knew about the Virgin River Trail…. Read more at Bill Bikes
Read MoreFeather from a hawk which occasionally appears in the neighborhood Neighbor’s bird feeding apparatus with an umbrella-like Twirl a Squirrel device Presently we are advised not to feed birds due to the presence of Avian Flu — to mitigate communal meeting points Black Birds are scarfing up seed spilled previously Little black speck at the … Continue reading "May Challenge"
Read MoreI had two errands that I wished to do by bike if the morning rain would ever stop. I was patient — well, that is questionable — and when there was a moment of no rain shortly after the lunch hour, I made a run for it. I did my two errands while it was … Continue reading "MORE FOR THE BIRDS"
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Boy oh boy, I sure was glad to see this website was back up this morning. I took a couple of bird pictures yesterday, and without Cycle365 I wouldn’t have known what to do with them. Now I can post them, along with a few more that I took today. First, however, I wanted to … Continue reading "Gigantic Cardinal and Other Birds"
Read MoreHuge thank you to Scott and Rachel for taking time from their trip to help get us here back on track ?. I finished the 30 Day of April challenge by riding every one of those 30 days (Yay), and was able to ride the first day of May to begin ’Bike Month”. Found some … Continue reading "THIS POST IS FOR THE BIRDS"
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What a promising title for a pop song! I did the hard part; now all we need is a composer/lyricist team. This is two days late for the April wall art/graffiti challenge, but under the extenuating circumstances (namely, the lack of a functioning website) I’m confident that our current Challenge Czar will grant a waiver … Continue reading "They’ve got an awful lot of Graffiti in Grenoble"
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Having safely returned home, I’ve now managed to create the first couple of installments of my blog for my auto and bike expedition. More to come. Read more at Bill Bikes
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I took this photo several days ago. When I tried to post it before the deadline, the site was in a state of digital meltdown. But here it finally is, late to the party. It’s on the wall of an underpass on the Virgin River Trail in St George, Utah.
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First, a big thanks to Scott and Rachael for getting Cycle365 to work again, although they had more attractive things on their agenda, like cycling beautiful paths in sunny France. Now to catch up for the days that we couldn’t post anything here. On the first post-operative day at the hospital (April 28) I was … Continue reading "Transition: Graffiti to Bird"
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