I love my bike shoes, despite their quirks. Both buckles are broken. Two of the four velcro straps have lost their velcroability and I continually push them back down as I ride, only to have them open again. The cleats are fully fused in place and I couldn’t readjust them …
Thursday, March 24th was the first day I saw an osprey back in Portland for the summer! This is about average for when I start seeing them, and it makes me so happy!! Since that first sighting on the 24th, I’ve seen four more confirmed osprey and one probable osprey …
The other day, I was biking east on the Springwater Corridor, which is one of my favorite bike paths in Portland and is 21 almost-totally-car-free miles long. It goes along the Willamette River, then up Johnson Creek, traveling through wetlands, open prairies, and between parks. It’s the way I used …
This is some of the weather I love most, the rain followed by bursts of sunshine that make the just-passed and the also-still-impending dark clouds even more dramatic. The thickening air that smells, everywhere, like flowers. The bird songs — not the bird chatter, but the actual songs, the musical …
