Photos with the bike

A bicycle is a truly amazing vehicle. It will take you almost anywhere particularly if you have the time to ride it. So often we need to get somewhere in a hurry and so we take the car. Yesterday I took my bike downtown for an appointment and then rode over to have lunch with Katharine. Perhaps I looked a bit out of place in the food court with all the business people but there were a few folks in blue jeans and, I didn't go full out cycling gear. I wore a rather conservative tshirt and had an ordinary pair of shorts over my roadie shorts. Besides I'm really not too concerned about it because I'm such a fashion plate anyway. :-)

It was a gorgeous day and I decided to try to find my way along the Elbow River pathway to the reservoir so I could take some pictures. I really wanted my camera the last time I was around there and didn't have it. I had no map so it was interesting to find my way following bike path and bike route signs. I ended up where I wanted to be but certainly not by the route I intended to take. Note to self: put a bike path map in the rack trunk.

After comparing the pictures I took when walking around Glenmore to the ones I took yesterday, the ones I took on foot are more interesting than the ones I took when I was riding the bike. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe I had more time when walking to consider the possible compositions whereas when I'm riding I have to make the decisions about whether to stop or where to stop more quickly. It's an interesting theory and one which I will be checking out.

Many of the deciduous trees had lost their leaves even since Monday so I suspect if I want to do much more fall photography I'd better get after it in the next couple of days.

Last night was the first meeting of the Southern Alberta Woodworkers Society and joined up. I rode my bike to that too. All in all I clocked 50 km yesterday. Fifty km is harder on a single than on the tandem. File that information away for future reference. Today I've been a bit of a slug. I appreciate so much the luxury of taking it easy on days when I feel like doing it. I can run around again tomorrow.