No Dunkin' Donuts - Week 17

A quiet day at the beach.  For most of our time there having coffee, tea, and donuts, it was overcast, and cool, which was really nice.  No hot sun.  The beach was deserted, I assume because of no sun and the cool temperatures.  The lifeguard was at his place sitting under his umbrella on the lifeguard tower.  Just before we left the sun came out and I shot this.  Love the dark gray sky.

Taking A Chance

I really wanted to do my bike ride today because I didn't ride yesterday with rain in the late afternoon.  Sometimes when I don't ride, I feel like a lump.  How silly is that?  It's just that when I do ride, I feel really great.  Exhausted, but great.  So today I checked radar before setting out, and saw a single thunderstorm cell that was heading south, down the Hudson river, headed in this direction, but I thought maybe it would pass to the west of Sea Cliff .  So I took a chance...  As I was part way through my ride, I did hear some thunder in the distance, but I kept riding.  As I got to the harbor I saw this scene, and there was my thunderstorm, well to the west.  Lucky me!

Fierce or Fatigue?

Sam does this cute thing a lot of times.  If he is looking at you, the tip of his tongue sticks out of what appears to be his closed mouth.  It is the cutest thing.  So he was lying on his back in my chair, and I was trying to get a photograph of his tongue. I was taking pictures and watching him move his head just a bit, when suddenly he did this huge yawn!  Click!  Got it!  Lucky me!  Here is the photograph I was trying to take of Sam's tongue. I told you it was cute.

"independence Day?" Poppycock!

"Independence Day?"  Poppycock!  I am British and the Queen and I want our colonies back!  Your mister Trump has made quite a mess of them, and they should be sent back to England, where they belong!  OK, OK, I am NOT British, I am a Connecticut Yankee, who happens to be born on the Fourth of July!  So today I did my 10 mile bike ride up and down the hills of Sea Cliff, wearing this Union Jack bike jersey.  I do have an American flag version bike jersey but I didn't want anyone to think that I support the "Bigly Orange" man!  I will confess, that we do have an American Flag hanging on the front porch, to celebrate the Fourth!

Did Someone Have a Birthday? Who?

I pass this house every day that I ride.  I think a couple of weeks ago there were signs on the lawn having to do with a graduation.  Today when I went by the house I found all of this.  I first passed it by, for some reason, with me thinking: "should I stop and shoot that...  nahhh."  Well it took about twelve seconds for me to jamb on the brakes and turn the bike around and take this photograph!  What a dolt!  What strikes me about this is that it is a sign of the pandemic - signs for graduations and birthdays in a time when we can no longer gather together for these important events in our lives.

It's All About The Sky

I mentioned Tuesday that the first thing I saw when we got to the beach was the sky.  After we had our coffee, tea and donuts we were just sitting there enjoying the scenery, and I decided to photograph the clouds again with a telephoto lens.  I included the trees on the tip of Sands Point, and the clouds, but it wasn't a picture yet.  Then from the right hand side, a powerboat came in to the picture, and that was my picture.

Shiny New Shoes!

These are my shiny new shoes!  Don't you love them?  They are my new bike shoes.  When I retired from Newsday, there was a small retirement party and my colleagues at work took up a collection, and it was just enough to buy a really nice pair of silver cycling shoes.  I have been using those shoes for 12 years now, and I have put 9,000 miles on them!  That seems like a worthwhile accomplishment.  You will think this is funny, but I am going to make a nice varnished wood plaque and mount my old shoes on it.  I will take a photograph of all that when it was done.  You will not believe how battered the old silver shoes are.  Meanwhile I am back on the road with these shiny new shoes.