morgan territory

not many territories around these days, rode through one along with a great group last saturday



nice to have shade climbing up


an ideal descent

catching up

there's currently a photographic backlog...

joaquin


redwood


spring continues...

standing still, floating fast | hummingbird

birthday weekend (1|2)

your humble narrator celebrated his birthday this weekend with a trip to briones with a lovely cohort of at least 40 people

riding to the campsite


scrambling around cow pies on our way to the sky


place


wonderful people


this helicopter played the antagonist in our escape from dystopia plot for a bit, but i suppose they decided we were in fact harmless


far away cyclist


happy


sun


shadows moving across the hillside


cows moving across the hillside


look at these two


sunset


heading down


but wait! adams and lulu have arrived!


frog


lots of folks, more than a couple birthdays


adam beds

birthday weekend (2|2)

morning


riding back to the main camp where delicious foods awaited




"this tree and i are made of the same stuff" ~carl sagan


back again




bicipause


vibrant colors


roadside wildflowers


warming up, cresting a hill


riding toward pinehurst


joaquin miller singletrack, because you have to go downhill somehow.






if that wasn't enough, i came back to oakland and celebrated the anniversary of vajda's urban farming paradise; test ride farms. many more wonderful people and a lovely garden party.

thanks to everyone who helped make this weekend one of my best.

it's nice

sprung

woke up early wednesday for a sunrise ride spent amongst the green fragrant spring hills.




taken from the balcony outside my studio, later that day.