Another day, another bike ride

Still unseasonably cool overnight but a trip to the grocery store this morning seemed to put everything just about right for a very pleasant afternoon.  The GRider and I cycled down to the inland lake and back.  Down to the lake went pretty well, back was into the freshening on shore breeze off the big lake.  But it was sunny and plenty warm enough, it was a nice ride.

We stopped for photos at a couple of the highlights of the area, highlights seen less often over the years as our attention has nearly always been drawn by the big lake.  We rode through Waukazoo Woods.

There are houses in there, lots of them, it is a major residential area.  But in constructing the new neighborhoods great care has been taken to retain the old, mature trees, meaning that the area is still very much a woods.

We got all the way down to the end of the inland lake.  This view is back towards Lake Michigan.

That pile of bricks left center is a pickle factory.  In favorable wind conditions one can bask in a strong and at least for me pleasant odor of pickles in brine.

Research had to be done about that airplane in yesterday's post.

It is actually a Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star.   It is a two seater, designed and used primarily as a jet trainer.  There's a Wikipedia article.

There also is a major Wikipedia article about the F-86 and there is also an article on something called AcePilots.com where a former Korean War F-86 pilot compares the F-86 to its principal adversary during that conflict, the MIG-15.

So the whole exercise was not completely for nothing.

And it still is a handsome devil.

Has anyone arrived back from Europe lately?  Just askin'.