Bike Photos are Traveling

I’ve moved.  Visit www.lovetopedal.com for more bike photos.  This is also the new location for Bike Photo Friday!  If you visit I hope you’ll share a bike story, or a photo.

Enjoy the ride,

Jami

Bike Photo Friday! Skull Fender

No matter what kind of bike you power, make sure to get outside and pedal this weekend.

Happy Bike Photo Friday!

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Bike Photo Friday!

This week I am running short on bicycle photos.  Finding mountain bikes on the trail is easy.  Spotting unique bikes everyday?  Not so much.  Yesterday I ventured out with my camera during an errand run to Southlake, TX.  I figured that since it was a beautiful day someone would have ridden a bike to the shopping center.

No bikes in the bike racks.  Starbucks was devoid of them.  Two laps in my vehicle turned up nothing.  While driving around looking for bicycles the irony hit that I was using up a lot of gasoline on this excursion.  I had  an appoint with the trails, so I kept driving with my guilty conscious.

In lieu of a bicycle around town I have three photos of bikes on signs.

Thanks to Grammar Girl’s podcast for supplying me with an entertaining definition of irony.  While I was fairly certain I knew how to use the word correctly, the fear of an Alanis Morisette moment set in.  Even if you know the proper use of the word, visit Grammar Girl.  Entertaining and informative?  The world needs more of it.

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Bike Photo Friday!

Get your bike out and go for a ride or I’ll send this guy after you. He’s just waiting for a reason to use those pedals.

Thanks to Dave who loaned me this photo.   Happy wheeling.

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Vacancies, Death and a Silo.

Three weekends ago we went exploring through northwest Texas. Breakfast at Le Peep was adequate as usual with stellar service. I’ll wait for our server if I have to. She always gets our breakfast right, tells us if she’s busy to explain why her service is slow, and keeps my coffee full and fresh. Lovely start to the day. Back in the car Dave asked where I wanted to go. I replied north northwest. And so we went.

We drove about an hour before we left big towns. Then the open space appeared. I appreciate open space and land now that I mountain bike. I can stare into the distance in awe of the lack of power lines and strip malls we grow accustom to. During a location scouting trip last year to Palo Duro Canyon I spent 7 hours in the car. It was one of the best car rides. The Texas scenery pulled me in.

Dave and I found an abandoned gas station. Old gas pumps have character that today’s computerized boxes lack.

The empty gas station was just the beginning of empty buildings. Wichita Falls is full of them. Restaurants, hotels, gas stations, houses, the city has been hit hard. An empty town is a boon for urban exploring. Good for us that a few buildings were unlocked, free of no trespassing signs.

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Bike Photo Friday! Returns

Bike Photo Friday is back in action. Today’s photo is from Bar H in St. Jo, TX.

This is where I’ll participate in my first bike race later this summer.  The trail is tough.  But, just as with anything, I’ll get better with practice.  Visit other Bike Photo Friday! pics by clicking this link.

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Listen up!

Lately I have gained a lot of creative energy and inspiration from creative women on Flickr and looking through different blogs.  Some of them make a living off of being creative online.  Seems like a dream, but the grass is always greener.   While I don’t see myself amassing a huge following of people, getting a book deal, or being all that enthralling on the net, I like playing here.  It’s somewhere to put my photos other than on a back up drive.

Tonight the flash is back on my camera.  I’m trying my hand at food photography.  This month’s Cooking Light issue has a risotto recipe that sounds delicious.  I splurged on a few ingredients.  The recipe called for fresh thyme on top of dry wine and mascarpone cheese. To my surprise there is a little bit of thyme in my patio garden that survived the freeze.  So one less item to purchase.

If I manage to take photos while cooking, I’ll post them up here.  The above photo was inspired by many creatives on Flickr who combine words and images.  I took the pic this morning while enjoying Spoon’s new album.

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Bark at Tyler State Park

Loop C at Tyler State Park is a … bear to put it nicely.  Steep climbs with quick turns in sprinkling rain when your mildly out of shape are rough.

Speaking of rough.  While pausing to gasp for air, wishing I was at my car and wondering why I’ve felt compelled to “train” for an endurance race, I stopped to catch my breath.   (train is in quotation marks because I’m just exercising, but I’m fooling myself with the T word because it sounds sexier).

Camera was in tow, but the winter has not been kind to Tyler State Park.

So I took a photo of the helpful bark.  The tree was huge!  And very pretty.

I survived my ride. The 10 mile trail seemed more like twenty with the climbs and the rain.

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Bike Photo Friday! Off the wall.

Happy Friday.  Make sure to find some time to get outside.

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Mr. Disposable

He was my cube companion for the day.  I noticed him staring at me earlier, so I gave him eyes to better see me with and a mouth so we could talk.   Turns out, we have a lot in common. 

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