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Commuting: Agony or Ecstasy?? you Decide...

R

rocketman

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A Matter of Attitude

The day started gray, as fall days often do
But the ride in was still pleasant
Dawn lit the mist, softening distant images

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When I got to work
The tree were busy preparing for winter
Taking their last long drink of fall

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Riding home that afternoon
I took the back roads as I always do
City streets hold no attraction for a rider

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If you’re a rider you’ll understand
If not, there’s no point in my trying
to explain it, just accept it and move on

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I stopped at an old cemetery I pass every day
And had been meaning to stop at
But never had, today was somehow different

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There were headstones that spoke from
Days gone by, Names remembered with flowers
Other forgotten and faded into the dim past

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The trees seemed happy with the recent rain
And shook their branches in greeting as I wandered among the stones,
My cohort and provider waiting patiently nearby

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Its nearly winter and the colors are late this year
Perhaps nature was just playing with us
I can’t blame her for that, who likes being predictable?

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Then it was time to leave
But not before one more stop
The ride and the walk needed a final point of reflection

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RM
 
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Ecstacy!

:clap Nice photos, Rocketman! (R U riding a K12LT now??:nono ) :nyah

I got up early the other morning for work, and even tho it was 28 deg. I opted to ride the 25 miles into Roanoke. Lucky for me I took the scenic road over Chestnut Mtn. and got to see this. It was even more spectacular in person:
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:bikes
 
It's all in the attitude

RM,

Stunningly beautiful pictures. Very, very nice. . . . Out west here we just don't see colors like these. Wow.
 
Tanks guys!

Hey Hank :wave hows tricks? long time no see.. say I didn't know your brother was up this way, I saw his report on you-alls recent ride on the local BMW squared board . Nice! And yeah, sunrises from mountain views are really something, ain't they?

Tom, well we have colors, you guys got them wide open spaces and desert blooms are quite something as I discovered on my recent trip to Cabo. So much great diversity, always something new to discover, our little blue marble sure is spectacular. Some day I gotta make it out west by bike and ride some Real mountains!:D
Oh and those were all with my little Cyber Shot P&S, it does handle color space nicely, course I did do some editing to make the color snap (which kinda blew out the sky in a few, coulda masked it, but what the hey). it was the combination of free-form poetry and mood set by the photos that I spent the real effort on. I've been getting kinda lax on my writing of late..
RM
 
NIce colors, nice composition, and the "point of reflection" double entendre, very clever. :clap
 
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