Calmer crowd

Curling yesterday, hockey tomorrow, today's ride is the last after work ride for this week, and just possibly for the year. Only a week of daylight savings remains but even with the clock change there is barely enough daylight being saved to allow for very many miles after 8 hours at the plant. All it would take is a bit of inclement weather or some emergency at work and the after work opportunity would just not present itself again. Truly the season is nearly over.

There are good things about the end of the season. The end of the season crowd is all that is riding now. Racer boy has pretty much disappeared from the streets. During the time when racer boy is out and about there is an aggressive rudeness which bubbles up all over the city. Racer boy has gone inside and the remaining riders are actually cordial to one another, greeting each other with a raised hand or a nod, civilities which completely disappear during the heat of the summer.

I don't miss racer boy.

It was 57 today, a disappointment to some as the forecast high was for something in the 60s. But the average high for this date is only 54 so it was an above average day. The wind was tolerable, the ride was nice. We have had frost but have not yet had an official temperature reading of freezing or below so it seems possible that we will get out of October without seeing our first snow flurry. Knock on wood though, a lot can happen in 6 days, including snow.

My route today was to the south and the return took me through the campus. Here are the cows in probably their last appearance for this year. I call it "Cows in Repose in Fall".Life is good.