An hour spin on the bike this morning to get back into a rhythm. There’s a local competition to photograph the local “Big 5”, which is not the same Big 5 as Africa’s, fortunately as that would make my pre-dawn rides a bit more, um, interesting. In my area, the Big 5 are deer, hedgehog, fox, ermine, and squirrel, which are a bit, er, tamer, though that probably adds to it being hard to find them as they don’t like being seen. I’ve seen all of them, with the fox and deer most common. The rarety of squirrels here is weird to me because I’ve always lived in places where they are plentiful and easy to spot. I have seen ermine, which was a confusing sight at first because I knew it wasn’t a fox, a badger, or a squirrel, so I had to look up what I had seen. Not on the list is badger, but may be that’s because they aren’t spotted at twilight and the idea of the competition is to get people out at twilight and enjoy the outdoors at a reasonable time.
With that said, here’s a pic from about 5:45a this morning.
A train came by, as expected, but my phone slipped in my gloved hand as I took the picture, so I’m surprised it’s this good. This is my “I’m in a typical HO-scale model train diorama” spot closest to home.
That was this morning, which was a ride. Yesterday, though not a ride but maybe an interesting pic from a 3.5mi run elsewhere (taken at 5:15a with the Louvre as my turnaround for a preflight run during an overnight layover in Paris).
And the day before yesterday, a 5km run in NE Morocco with homeless dogs (there are several in this pic, most are on the beach, and to my left out of the frame are several more large dogs but that pic was darker) and, in the second pics, what I figure are storks making their nests wherever they want cuz they’re big.
Love the new forum name!
35 miles, 3,400 ft climing… about 80% pavement and 20% dirt.
don’t say that! Frisbee golf is not a sport 
