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Awww! Take care you two. I will also miss my daily dose of delving into your life. It's been such a wonderful distraction from the pandemic. Very much hope to see the beginning of a new journal before too long.
4 years agoHuh. You’re so intuitive, Suzanne. What sort of track record do you have with your hunches?
4 years agoThanks, Scott and Rachael, for blogging as long as you did. I'll miss your bicycle rides... But I have a hunch that unexpectedly you will get some nice days, you will get on your bikes, and you will write and film. I hope so anyway. No winter is all cold and rainy, just as no summer is all warm and sunny.
4 years agoI know this is a cycling blog but I have found it very enlightening reading what is going on I your country written by someone who lives in a place we knew so well and has such a similar view of the world as us. We will miss our morning fix as the glorious summer weather is now upon us and our only inconvenience is that we have to check in using our Covid tracing app if we go anywhere - we appreciate our good fortune. Our wishes are that the US wakes to a glorious spring with the healing that Joe Biden and that magnificent Kamala Harris have promised
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That is a fantastic photo!!
4 years agoOh, of course - it’s a Dumbo Tree! It reminds me of this favorite photo from our first tour of Taiwan: https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/taiwan2014/hualien/#3275_2131400_j4vbDq_image.
4 years agoThanks for passing this on, Carolyn. I especially appreciated the wrap up statement at the end of the article: “ In the end, there is no cure for growing old, stiff and creaky. But how you adapt to the changes is something under your control.”
4 years agoMe too. I’d heard they were really colorful in the fall before their needles drop, so I was watching out for it. When I saw Therese in the sprin* they were still bare.
4 years agoGreat to hear that your skin check went well.
And I'll bet your mind was so enthralled with the colors at Washington Park that it forgot about your achy knees for a bit!
Wow! That's the showiest conifer I've ever seen.
4 years agoWe came across some of these leaves on our walk the other day. I picked one up and carried it for at least a couple miles, waving it around and stirring up childhood memories.
If these leaves had been in my backyard when I was 7 or so, I probably would have thought if I held one in each hand and flapped them fast enough I could fly. I tried this with small branches of smaller-leaf trees, jumping off the brick trash burner. It never worked, but was sure fun trying.
This is a great article and makes a lot of sense.I’m definitely having more aches and pains and issues with cold and heat but getting out on a bicycle ride or long walk really helps. Thanks for sharing!
4 years agoOh, well sure. That makes sense, It’s labeled ‘umbrella tree’, but it’s quite an old sign, I’m sure. I’ve come across a couple of other trees up there with common names that are out of favor, or even species names that have been reclassified since.
4 years agoNice variety of colors, shapes, textures & contrast.
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It is! How exciting to see blooms on them.
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