Rides Mitch on 30 Jul 2007 08:56 pm
Hot July rides
The summer season is for riding for me, I find winter easier to cope with, I can always add layers, but at a certain point you can’t take any more off. There is relief with wind blowing on you, but that disappears on the hills. Ninety degrees in full suns heats my brain to its limit, so evening rides are the best option. I got a little behind on my blogs with the Chicago posts, so the pictures here are an amalgam of several short hot rides taken with Jojo and/or Holly. The lake often beckons on these rides, the loop down to Moore’s Creek, or the down and back ride to Pine Grove are both great.
The horses live along Knights Ridge Rd., I have been visiting them for years, they seem to relate to my bike.
When in Chicago at the beginning of July I found both raspberries and mulberries, in Indiana, they were hurt by a late frost, I found very few, and they were gone by the end June. So I was suprised to find these berries, a second crop, in early August.
At Pine Grove the water was very low, the lotus plants were mostly out of the water, and the birds chasing each other (hawk vs sparrow, the sparrow was winning) and fish were jumping everywhere.
Here are couple of flowers I could not identify exactly the one looks like phlox, the other like a yellow coneflower with daisy like petals.
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