Avoiding the swamp

Air temperature 67 F, wind NW about 5 mph, overcast starting to clear. Should be able to get out on the bike. Bogs aren't swamps. Neither are marshes and fens . . .

Wednesday aviation report

Heard a helicopter off in the distance at my water stop, looked off in that direction, and saw what looked kinda like a Skycrane. Then reset the range, and turned it into a dragonfly -- one of the huge versions that really should mount lights and a transponder.

No roadkill sighted. One monarch butterfly fluttering along.

Roadside flowers extensive, but the only new species is smartweed and possibly a different type of wild rose. Blooming at a different time and different area, anyway.

Got out on the bike, did not die. Ride takes me over 600 miles for the year, a pitiful total but mine own.

15.26 miles, 1:15:03

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"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."