Monthly Archive: May 2010

bixi

I don’t know how many miles but we learned how to use the bixi system to tour Montréal. It worked well until the credit card transaction system broke down. Then we walked. Bixi

défi métropolitain

100K Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines to L’Épiphanie, Quebec farmlands – dry furrows, corn shoots 6 inches tall, grain elevators red-winged blackbirds sack lunch at l’halte-dîner one steep hill (“montaigne”) a wicked head wind on the last leg...

bloomin metric 2010

48.7 miles (75 K) forecast varied for chance of rain from 20 to 30 to 50 to 60 percent but there was no rain heavy mist in the early morning made it difficult to...

the we in weather

NICK LAWRENCE / BEYOND CAN BE OUR MODEL Lisa Robertson. The Weather. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2001. Ecopoetics 1 What are you trying to say? I often ask this about poems, but I don’t...

lakeside ride

10 miles short section along North Stamford Reservoir, bridge crossing early morning, but still got caught in rush hour traffic on the return View North Stamford Reservoir Ride in a larger map

pound ridge loop ride

32 miles cool, sunny partially lost at times, especially in northern part of the ride “rolling” hills many mansions View Pound Ridge Loop in a larger map