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Kalamazoo County MI

• 01.01.10
  November roadside
  Kalamazoo County MI (2)

  A couple of times when I've seen a deer up ahead a ways looking back toward me, I've tried staring straight back, not blinking and not changing my cadence, to see how close I could get. Then when I got very close I thought how this may not be so good because I don't know what direction that deer is going to jump when it bolts. It probably doesn't know either. Fortunately, each time it bolted away from the road when it finally did. I'm not quite sure why I've done that twice, ...
  
  
• 10.21.09
  Home, sweet ride home
  Kalamazoo County MI (0)

  I've been slow at blogging lately. Not much bikeriding, either. I can think of several excuses, one of which is duties at work. Speaking of which, the above is a photo taken just before riding home from work in early May 2006. I found it while looking for other photos. When I explain where I work people comment on how it must be nice to work in such a place, next to a lake. I tell them I work in a windowless office. But my duties do take me outside at times. ...
  
  
• 05.27.09
  Phlox
  Cass County MI, Kalamazoo County MI (1)

  At this point on Sunday afternoon's ride, I thought I was approaching the intersection across from which lay Harvey Jones' farm. I stopped here just in case there wasn't anything else to take a photo of. But I was off by half a mile, which I came to realize when I stopped to visit at the first farmhouse on the right. The flowers reminded me of a bad joke that I thought I invented long ago. Twice a year I am reminded of it: Christmas really ought to be in the ...
  
  
• 04.09.09
  Front Porch Republic
  Alabama, Kalamazoo County MI (1)

  The article that inspired the name for the new blog, Front Porch Republic, tells of a 1975 essay titled "From Porch to Patio". It explains how homes used to be built with front porches where people could interact with their neighbors. Now we more often have patios in back. They are more secluded and private--places to avoid interactions with neighbors. I wasn't looking at front porches in particular when I stopped to take a photo of this house. It was on a bike ride I did in April 2006, between Auburn and Tuskegee, Alabama. It ...
  
  
• 10.31.08
  Cheburashka
  Calhoun County MI, Kalamazoo County MI (0)

  Tonight I rode home from work the long way, which is a mile or so longer than my usual route. It's a route with less traffic than the usual, so I felt free to work on my assignment for the course in Conversational Russian that I'm taking. It's a non-credit course that meets one night a week, which deprives me of one bike ride a week, too. So an extra mile here and there helps to make up for it. Our main assignment this week is to learn the song Cheburashka. I recorded the song from this YouTube site ...
  
  

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