Thick o' fog (again)

Visibility about 100' when I went out for the morning newspaper. Guess we found the dewpoint last night. Temperature in the mid 30s F, with wet frost on the cars. And a dozen or so goldfinches fighting over the 8 perches (only 6 with access to seeds) on the thistle feeder. One nonchalant nonconformist goldfinch sat on the sunflower feeder, crunching on the big seeds and cheering on the scrum a foot or so away...

Don't know if the fancy-dancy "bridge walk" downstream will have visible river for the governor's speech and pipe-band serenade -- new bridge across the narrows just before the bay, cable-stayed suspension bridge replacing one built 75 years ago and threatening to drop into the river under a heavy truck. That section of the river is known for fog -- we'd lived here a couple of years before we actually saw water when driving across.

May do an interim lawn-rake this afternoon. Lots more leaves still waiting their turn to drift down in the sun.

Saturday roadkill report

One flat muskrat out in the bog. Maybe flooded out -- water up to the side of the road again, due to a couple of inches of rain this week.

The fog burned off to a clear blue sky and temperature nearly reached 60 F so I snatched another bike ride from the jaws of winter. Recent storms have stripped a bunch of the early "foliage" from the trees, birches and aspens and ashes and red maples. Sugar maple and oak and beech still holding firm.

More wind than I wanted -- enough to cut 10 mph off my top speed on a certain downhill, and about 1 mph from my total run.

15.31 miles, 1:07:40