The Spokesrider

The business district of Canandaigua, Michigan, was all closed up when I arrived Sunday afternoon (two Sundays ago). Even though it didn’t look as interesting to me as the scenes on this side of the street, I got to wondering if I should have pointed my camera across the street to the left (west), to [...]

Here are a couple more photos from Monday’s bike ride. These were taken during a brief lunch break in a public park along the River Raisin. It was the first time I had been in Blissfield in quite a few years, and it was the first time I ever associated with place with sunshine.

I think these cabbages look better if you click on the image to biggify it.  The scene was from today’s bike ride, at a point on the Raisin River between Blissfield and Deerfield, MI.   The river is just to the left, behind the trees.   In the distance, out of sight, was the one-time home of [...]

This is a scene on Canandaigua Road on the way to Medina Township in Lenawee County.  I know nothing of the history of this barn or farm.  But I liked looking at it. This farmhouse may have been owned by a son or other relative of Appollos Drown, one of the 1832 militia captains who [...]

These are the last photos I took today, at the end of a 50.5 mile bike ride.   This storefront is right across the street from one of Indiana’s county courthouses. It looks like I took a photo of myself again. YTD mileage:  1552.0

Over at the phred bicycle touring list people have been asking each other whether they got their first bicycle for Christmas.   It sounds like some of the guys came from families with even less money for bicycles than mine had.   At the time of the above photo (June 1959) we kids had some kind of [...]

This is a good photo for a time such as now when I’m too busy getting ready for another bike outing to post much. I presume I don’t need to explain where it was taken. I’ve often wondered, though, how Black Hawk and his large entourage would get across to the other side and/or over [...]