Vacation

Vacation.  It takes a good week to get everything in place to go away and then it takes another good week to recover and do all the things that got pre-empted by the preparations.  And then the kid's activities start...

I am very thankful to have gotten daily rides in throughout.  Much like my lawn, the unusual bits of life that flash by a speeding bicycle do not take a vacation.  Here are some from the last month:

• the well dressed young man keeping watch over a wallet placed in a Roxbury crosswalk on a bright Sunday morning.
• the extreme flatness of New Jersey's Pine Barrens
• the expression on a rotund Costco sample wrangler as I clicked past in full kit and an armful of bananas.
• paper flat snakes and chipmunks and nearly flat turtles in the roadway.
• the dump truck driver who slowed and waved me across Main Street in Acton after I had sat and watched an endless stream of traffic pass.
• the return of giant black beetles and wooly catapillars that have to cross the road.
• the fully loaded lumber truck that I drafted from Eastham to Wellfleet on Cape Cod.
• tiny frogs that would fit on your thumbnail.