The ride in this morning.
Just finishing up lunch and trachrich's post "Nature is cool" reminded me of a very cool thing this morning.
Cruising up just north of the big historic club off the bike path and just across from the big blue crane (for loading scrap steel) i saw an egret and what looked like a small blue heron chilling in the water less than a meter apart. The tide was close to being out and on the other side in the little inlet there was this thing "swimming." I thought, damn a big fish is scooting around in there, cool! Then its head popped up. There was a cormorant swimming around in the shallows...
Then about where my friend Lee snapped a few shots of a swan on Sunday morning a big Great blue heron flew up next to me and we matched pace for 50 meters or so before he flared his wings and touched down not more than 3 meters from me into the water. Very cool. Then with a wow ain't nature cool feeling just as i was down shifting to the little ring to drag the trailer up to the parkway, TWO great blue herons came swooping past and glided past swooping away only to drag their feet and land.
How many days do you get to see three great blue herons? The only detraction was the headwind. I fear a repeat of yesterday with a strong headwind coming in AND going home.
But, with amazing stuff like the Herons, a head wind is a mere informality.
Get off your ass and ride your bike to work. Make it work. Portlanders who do it have more cash to dump into the local economy. Maybe Solobreak might be wise to invest in a super fly new commuter bike purpose built for the job. Eh? Ride your bike to work. It will make a difference. You can set an example, you can be an example for others. It sure would reduce the pool of eligible americans for the TV show "Biggest Loser" if more people would hop on the bike and ride to work.
ride ur bike
G
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"Get off your ass and ride your bike to work. Make it work."
Indeed.
There's a few days a year in my short commute that I get to see some amazing stuff I'd never see whizzing by on four wheels. Like a city worker stopping his riding lawnmower to wait for a family of ducklings to move on. He was slumped over the steering wheel watching them in no hurry to scoot them out of the way. What a sight.
I agree......Amazing things to be had in that short communte. What is even more amazing is that people still wonder why I do it.
Ride......and Work
I actually see great blue herons regularly around here. The rarity is the dead skinned eviscerated bear on the side of the road. That happens with considerably less frequency.
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