Expat Finn in the U.S. midwest. Hobbyist cyclist, professional programmer.
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Went for another (partly) off-road bike ride along a similar (but not identical) route as a few weeks ago. This is only a couple hundred meters from the last panorama i posted to Mastodon, yet i couldn't get a panorama picture from where i was standing, just a little further up the hill.
took another bike ride yesterday. while i'm mostly a road cyclist, occasionally i do like to try a bit of off-road biking, and that gets me to woodland scenarios a little like this one.
(it also gets me an incredible workout. seriously, compared to road cycling, mountain biking is hard work!)
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Took another really short bike ride yesterday, just twice around the lake loop. The trail was fairly busy --- as usual for that loop --- but i wasn't really out for exercise, so i took my time and stopped for photos.
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took a slow bike ride yesterday, ended up visiting a little community garden cum nature preserve just outside Suttons Bay, Michigan. always a calm, peaceful spot to sit or stroll.
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it's early July, so the height of festival season --- and therefore the air shows --- are in town. which means we're leaving town to avoid the jet-plane noise during the crucial hours of the day.
yesterday we went for a walk along the beach, a few dozen kilometres/miles away; this is by the lighthouse at the tip of Leelanau Peninsula.
very successful little 72-km bike ride yesterday. not a novel route, but between the new bike and riding it in the opposite (to my usual) direction made it feel new.
i went mountain biking yesterday. well, i'm a road cyclist; i mostly hiked up the hills, and down some of them too. but once i got up to the top and let my heart rate calm down, the view was nice.
i like taking landscape panoramas while i'm out cycling. this is an often ridden-past spot i decided to stop at for a change, for the blooming fruit trees' sake.
(no, i sadly don't know what fruit are cultivated there. possibly cherries or apples.)
Leelanau trail, by Shady Lane.
years ago, long before that sculpture was put up, there used to be a hand-made sign by the bike trail just a couple hundred meters from this spot; it read "unicorn crossing".
that sign is long gone now; i guess someone's kid grew up and put aside their childish things.
i miss that sign every time i ride past its spot on the trail.