April D.C. TE Ride

[7rider]

Fun ride!
Nahhhh, I haven't told Tom about the pace. He knows that I feel that there are times when the ride average mph is not the most important part of the ride.
I'll try to upload a picture or two. Tam, did you have any luck finding the flowers? I haven't looked yet, but don't imagine they'll be too hard to track down with a Google search. They were pretty common there.
Janice - did you make it to dinner? We did get to Great Sage, but I still have half my dinner in the fridge as leftovers. Dinner was WONDERFUL! Can't wait to go back. Our friends are members of a DC Vegetarian Society, so they got us 10% off the bill (yay!)

[Kalidurga]

Tam, did you have any luck finding the flowers? I haven't looked yet, but don't imagine they'll be too hard to track down with a Google search. They were pretty common there.

A quick peek at my Field Guide to the Mid-Atlantic showed me that I was way off-base with the guess that the white flowers are Trillium <--That's one of my photos. I had totally forgotten that I took it a couple years ago.

It looks as if clustered blue ones are Virginia Bluebells, or something related.

I couldn't find anything that looked like the white flowers. Let me know if you do.

[HillSlugger]

I really missed riding with you yesterday. Here we are in the middle of April and for various reasons I've only logged 45.5 miles. Sigh...

[7rider]

Tam,
I came to the same result on the blue flowers: Virginia bluebells
http://www.candocanal.org/articles/bot.html

But I, too am striking out on the white ones.
Here's the picture. I thought I loaded it earlier, but I guess not.
Anyone? Any ideas?
EDIT: Looks like the white ones are "Sleepy****s" (NOT my name!) or "Star of Bethlehem"
http://2bnthewild.com/plants/H191.htm
Thoughts?

Oh...and it looks like the turtles (at least most of them...) were Eastern painted turtles - http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/VHS/eastern_painted_turtle.htm

[Kalidurga]

EDIT: Looks like the white ones are "Sleepy****s" (NOT my name!) or "Star of Bethlehem"
http://2bnthewild.com/plants/H191.htm
Thoughts?

I dunno, Regina, the pics of Sleepy-d i c k on this page look very different than your photo. In your shot the stem is different, it looks as if there are more buds on the stem above the open blossom, and the flowers are more of a waxy, greenish-white color. This pic of Star of Bethlehem, though, does look more like your photo. If they're the same thing, maybe we saw them at an earlier stage.

Nicole, considering that you're training for a triathlon and logging miles in three different sports, I'm sure your aggregate mileage is well up there. I'd love to get you out there for a relaxing "noodle" ride, though. 'Course, I also have to get my butt in gear for a road ride or two with you

[7rider]

Tam,

Sleepyd-i-c-k and Star of Bethlehem are the same thing: Latin name: Ornithogalum umbellatum. I was looking at the green cast on the back of the petals and the unopened buds as indicators. I think the flowers we saw were not fully open. But I don't have a good shot to show if there were multiple blossoms on one stalk, as the Kay Yatskievych's shot shows on the "Discover Life" site you linked. Drat!

And Nicole....I don't feel badly for you! You still have more total miles logged than I on BikeJournal and you are firmly placed in the top 15 for the 2500 in 2007 race. Your eyes are more important than miles logged. Once you heal up, we'll be out there logging tons o' miles on the road. It's supposed to be sunny and low 60's next weekend. Yay! Have we finally turned the corner??

[HillSlugger]

And Nicole....I don't feel badly for you! You still have more total miles logged than I on BikeJournal and you are firmly placed in the top 15 for the 2500 in 2007 race. Your eyes are more important than miles logged. Once you heal up, we'll be out there logging tons o' miles on the road. It's supposed to be sunny and low 60's next weekend. Yay! Have we finally turned the corner??

Yeah, but I used to be #11 ! Besides, how am I supposed to stay ahead of you if I don't log those miles?!? And, while my back was turned, Janice has slipped ahead of me. The fall is hard and fast

Nicole, considering that you're training for a triathlon and logging miles in three different sports, I'm sure your aggregate mileage is well up there. I'd love to get you out there for a relaxing "noodle" ride, though. 'Course, I also have to get my butt in gear for a road ride or two with you

I was really looking forward to a nice relaxing ride along the canal...

I'm about to lose another riding day: starting this week I'll be swimming at the pool on Thursday mornings instead of spinning in the basement. My swimming needs far more help than my riding.

I'm still thinking about the Bike to Work Day commute and doing a bike commute about once every other week.

The eye is doing fine and I got back on the trainer this morning. Hopefully I can get in a nice long outdoor ride next weekend!