Sunday roadkill report
Couple of crows, juvenile raccoon, porcupine, shreds of skunk.
Today's ride covered some of the hillier country I try, Copeland Hill and Rider Bluff and King's Mountain, with a few lakes and ponds tossed in just for pretty. I like to ride it in the fall when the trees turn, which hasn't _quite_ started yet -- see next week. But I probably won't do that route again this year, not without a preliminary reconnaissance by car. One section of Bucks Mills Road is under construction, just packed gravel, on a long uphill. That qualifies as at least the first circle of Hell on a narrow-tired road bike....
Stopped in at the nature center on the way back into town. No visible hummingbirds this time. Pair of dragonflies mating in the bird-bath pool, doing that dip-the-tail-in-the-water thing. Yay dragonflies!
44.05 miles, 3:34:30
Today's ride covered some of the hillier country I try, Copeland Hill and Rider Bluff and King's Mountain, with a few lakes and ponds tossed in just for pretty. I like to ride it in the fall when the trees turn, which hasn't _quite_ started yet -- see next week. But I probably won't do that route again this year, not without a preliminary reconnaissance by car. One section of Bucks Mills Road is under construction, just packed gravel, on a long uphill. That qualifies as at least the first circle of Hell on a narrow-tired road bike....
Stopped in at the nature center on the way back into town. No visible hummingbirds this time. Pair of dragonflies mating in the bird-bath pool, doing that dip-the-tail-in-the-water thing. Yay dragonflies!
44.05 miles, 3:34:30