Weather such as we had this morning almost always keeps me inside. But a couple of days off the bicycle made me anxious to try and when the rain stopped I started checking the radar. It seemed obvious to my trained only by life experience eyes that the worst was over for a bit. More rain didn't seem likely.
By about 2pm the street looked dry enough so I suited up and gave it a try.
I just absolutely will not start in the rain but once out there I can be pretty hard to discourage. I got sprinkled on a bit, rode in a near mist for another bit, through it all it was cold. I rode for an hour but finally gave up. I decided that at least I had some exercise and I got the first photo of the year of a flowering shrub.
That's not the usual first shrub but it is the same variety. This one is only a couple of blocks from my house.I got dressed and went to the bakery. On the way home I noticed first that the day was brightening and then eventually that some clearing was occurring in the western sky.
I got geared back up and went out for another hour. Recycling.
I have heard stories about the massive snow pile at the Rice Street Sears. I have ridden past the Fairgrounds snow mountain several times. Here's a still impressive pile in the Cub parking lot at Har Mar.
NewLOOK for scale.I have documented that the Fairgrounds pile is being manipulated to speed the melt process. As for this Cub pile, on two occasions while shopping there this winter I observed a giant snow melting machine operating on the store side of the pile. I haven't seen anything like that since the sun started to do the melting.
The weather here didn't seem that bad at all even when overcast and I can now report that the sun has come out. All in all, an OK day trending towards nice.
1 comment:
It's early for re-cycling. It can be a little bit of a shock to your legs. Good on 'ya for persistence.
That's an impressive pile of parking lot snow.
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