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Dixie Fog

A quick trip to Dixie over the weekend yielded foggy photos.

The Sound of Summer

Maybe it’s just me¹ but this is what summer sounds like.

Having grown up on a walnut farm where we watered with impact sprinklers running all summer long… ↩

It’s the end of the month and time for me to recap how far I’ve biked this month and any major accomplishments. Sorry, but this was a fairly boring month on the bike. A little midday rain stopped me from riding as much during lunch,¹ yet I didn’t get rained on during commuting, just a little heavy misting on a couple of mornings.

My June Bicycling Accomplishments

This month marked Sage’s one year anniversary. In that year, I biked 3,207 miles.
In a little less than a year, I biked the distance equal to Portland, OR to Portland, ME.
I continued to take pictures during my commute, and posted a few of them here on my blog.

Mileage Summary

Distance	Time / Bike
306	Biked in June²
1,369	Biked in 2014³
3,366	Biked on Sage⁴

How is your 2014 so far on the bike?

Keep pedaling!

I don’t like having wet feet at work and don’t have dedicated cycling shoes. ↩
3,291 – 2,985 ↩
3,291 – 1,922 ↩
2,985 + 75 ↩

Wired

I wasn’t looking for another shot of wires and pole … honest. I took a detour on the way home to shoot a stand of trees on the far side of a field. It looked good, but only in my mind. The scene’s dynamic range was too great and I didn’t have a tripod with me to make a good HDR shot. So I looked up. This is what I saw. Sort of…¹ ;-)

Continue reading “Wired”

Folsom Point

Earlier this week, we took a quick stop at Folsom Point to see how low Folsom Lake has dropped. Hiking much of the way down to the water, I turned around and took a shot back up the hill, to where the water level should be.

Tension

No, it’s not Haystack Rock, or trees, or a sunrise.

It’s a power pole.

And I like it.¹

As I was driving with Ashley, I looked through the sunroof and said I wanted to come back and take a picture of this pole, though I’d need to stand in the middle of the street to get the perspective I wanted. Ashley reached up and opened the sunroof. Ah! Problem solved. Grabbing my camera, I took a couple quick shots while we waited for a green light. ↩

Misty Grove

Happy Friday the 13th, everyone!

Update: I wasn’t happy with my first editing from the original, so I redid it.

A View from the Exit Row

Mmm… :-)

Today’s airport experience in PDX was downright nice: the TSA was scanning boarding passes at the far end of the line and sending a large portion through the “PRE” line. Those of us lucky enough to be selected went through security pre-9/11 style: coats, shoes, and belts stayed on and computers remained packed. As another passenger said, “It’s like were not the enemy today.”

I hope your day was filled with nice surprises, too.