A collection of fun things seen while biking around
This evening, I consciously declined to make an after-work plan to go running, even though it’s with my sweet Forest Park running group and I’m sure I would have loved it. But I’ve been gone for almost a week, and I’m about to be gone for four more days, and …
…keeps the doctor away? Keeps the February doldrums away? . (February 7: random tractor spotting:) . I had an idea a while ago that I would take at least one picture a day from bike rides in February. I imagined it would, on the one hand, be a way to …
I keep thinking that this post is woefully late, since I’ve been thinking about it for weeks, but then I also keep seeing more baby birds, so maybe it’s not so late after all;) These two were maybe my favorites: . (omg can you handle the cuteness?? I sort of …
I was looking for something a few days ago and reminded myself that I used to have an informal series on this blog of “things you might see while biking,” just random stuff that I see while out-n-about on my bicycle. So, without further ado, here it is, back again! …
That’s right: with all this spring rain, this “road” has such an amazing pothole/pond that a pair of Mallard ducks have taken up residence inside it. (SE Woodward, between 78th and 79th) Which is to say, I think this road has crossed the line from infrastructure to native habitat. As …
One of my favorite things ever: happy little non-permanent graffiti that makes me smile. Things like this: (wheeeeee!:) Or this: …which is an old picture of an old sign on SE Salmon Street that has since been replaced by a new sign with a similar sentiment that I didn’t stop …
I’m sitting on our porch, watching two different sets of crows build two different nests in close-but-respectably-separate conifers. All around, I hear other, different birds — the bushtit pair that’s building a nest that I haven’t yet been able to find, the two chickadees similarly settling somewhere close, a bunch …
I hope they’re involving lots of wholesomeness and outdoor activity (and indoor coziness too) with whoever you’re choosing to spend time with:) This contraption was on someone’s porch in Anacortes, WA, as seen on my recent bike/train trip up to Orcas Island. Who says Santa needs a reindeer? Or a …
Awww. I came out of Planet Granite the other day and found that my bike — a Soma Double Cross — had been joined at its bike rack by another Soma Double Cross. (double trouble of black Double Crosses:) I do so love my bitty bicicleta, and when I see …
When I think of California’s Bay Area, I think of throngs of people and hordes of traffic. I do not think of good biking. At least, I didn’t, until I went down to visit my good friend Mark, previously of Upcycles in Portland and now relocated to Beeline Bikes in …