Cycling year-round (or, why biking through the winter makes you a happier person)

Okay, I know there are only so many posts about spring and flowers and other frou-frou I’m-so-excited-about-life shit that you can put up with, but bear with me for a few seconds. Because yesterday, while I was biking around in the crazy sunny-raining-sunny-hailing-darkdarkdark-sunny spring weather, I realized something. It was somewhere between scoping out the [...]

The cherries, they are a bloomin’ :)

It may not be that warm or even that consistently sunny yet. But. The daffodils, camellias, and cherry blossoms all say it’s time for spring. (Not sunny. Not warm. But–flowers!! And the steel bridge) I’ll admit that I’ve been finding an excuse to bike past the waterfront cherry blossoms every day since Thursday of last [...]

enter spring (at least for a few days:)

(crocuses in my planting strip as we speak:) It’s officially 60 degrees right now, the sun is shining, I’ve spent all day thus far outside, and I just heard a real-live ice cream truck. YES!!! I hope the rest of you (at least, you Portland-types:) have some awesome adventures planned for the weekend, which is [...]

fun in the (sort of:) snow!

I was surprised to get a phone call from James this morning not 15 minutes after he’d left for work. “You have to get down here!” he said. Unused to such phone calls while he’s still in the midst of his morning ride, I was a little worried that something bad had happened–a crash, an [...]