Two views of Sheldon and Frankson

Yesterday would have been a nice day for a ride but I stayed inside for a 3pm video stream from Madison.

And it was worth it.  The Gophers tied the Badgers at 1-1 with a goal with only 1:28 remaining in regulations and then subdued the red menace with an overtime goal with 59.something seconds remaining.

The Gophers who had previously been number 1 in every weekly poll for over two years until this week when they were rated number 2 to Wisconsin overturned the apple cart and swept the this week number 1 rated stinking Badgers.

That should settle that, at least for now.

No hockey today, instead I rode my bicycle.

TOPWLH came back from her support visit to the ancients with a report of 71F at their Bloomington abode.  I think the official is going to be more like 68 but why quibble.  It was a pretty nice day.  I rode in shorts.

The temperature made it feel like the last day of summer.  It really isn't anything like summer anymore.  This is pretty rapidly getting to be late fall.  But some of the tree displays seem just as behind the calendar as today's high temperatures, they just don't do a lot to declare that this will all be over very, very soon.

Here are a couple of looks at the intersection of Sheldon and Frankson, an intersection I visit a couple of hundred times most years.

The first is of Frankson street looking west.  The trees are mostly maples and still show some green.  They definitely are still retaining almost all of their leaves.  Even so, it ain't summer anymore.  It is pretty, but it ain't summer.

From a vantage point with about ten feet or so of the above photo, here is a look down Sheldon Street, facing north.  Sheldon Street is the street with all boulevard trees being oak trees.

Street sign validating location visible there on the left.  It is only just barely fall on Sheldon Street.

I rode in shorts.  On October 19.

Apparently it was a pretty nice day, it sure felt like that to me.