Rolling & Slogging

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Wednesday and Thursday brought two more dirt road rides. Wednesday’s ride was finally in some sun south of town on the PrOcal, and Thursday’s ride was a muddy slog north of town on the Fatterson in dense fog.

My ride south was a route that I’ve now attempted twice, and failed twice because of missing a turn. The first time it was just me not paying attention, the second time I thought I took the correct turn, but the road sign was missing, and as it was, I should have gone another mile or two, and then made the turn. No matter, it was still a great ride in some nice fall weather.

I was happy with the photos I took on both days with the Fuji X-T1, so rather than blather on about crap 32.5 and 22.5 mile rides, I will just throw the pics up with some crap commentary. Not to mention I’m a little pressed for time today.

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Nabbed another pic of a dirt road farm mouser on the prowl. Oddly enough it was cohabitating with some chickens in the same garden. I would have thought the cat would have looked at them like an all you can eat KFC buffet.

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Rolling along one dirt road I saw a couple a couple of goats in their pen. Not sure what they were up to, but to me they looked like two kids caught doing something they shouldn’t be.

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I saw more snakes during Wednesday’s ride than I saw all summer. I must have seen fifteen to twenty small snakes on the road over the 32 miles. I guess the colder nights have them out looking for sun during the day.

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Violators will be prosecuted, and tied up with a big ol’ chain! That’s some backwoods justice!

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Saw a painted turtle along one road. It got a bit spooked when I approached and sucked up into its shell. I would have rather had a shot with legs out, but I’ll take it.

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Thursday was one of the foggiest days I’ve seen in a long while here. It was so foggy that B’s school was cancelled for the day. Not sure it lifted until well after one or two in the afternoon.

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The fog mad for some good photos though, and helped make things a bit more interesting. Even barns and roads I’ve taken photos on hundreds of times took on a look that I couldn’t resist.

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cows-beyond-fence

I took the shot above twice. One with the cows in focus, one with them out. The more I look, the more I find myself digging them out of focus, with the fence in focus.

lone-tree-in-fog

This photo of the lone tree in the bean field was made much better with the addition of the fog. Not sure I would have even shot it had it not been foggy, or at least processed it in color.

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One thing I’ve noticed is that I always seem to shoot my barn photos with the barns to the right. I like me some rule of thirds, but I might want to start mixing it up a bit!

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By the end of the ride I was completely soaked. Between the fog, some light rain, and the sweat from the humid conditions, everything needed to be dried and or washed when I got home.

Finally here’s a brief iPhone video to show the fog, and the vastness of the open farm land I was riding in. For some reason I had Suffer Little Children by The Smiths, on my mind as well as the first line to Dial-a-Cliché by Morrissey on my mind as I took it all in.

 

Later.

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