Summer-like autumn cycling: glorious nostalgia

[shootingstar]

It's been sunny and hot (but only after early morning) nearly daily for last few weeks and onward here. Cycling around in the last of summer sun, dreamy days, heat and bright fall leaf colour, seems accentuate for me, beauty and fragility of life and passing of every season. No matter where I've lived in Canada.

It is my favourite time for cycling for I am both happy, yet wistful that winter is approaching very soon.

I'm still wearing shorts and very thin cycling jacket when commuting to work. By late afternoon, it's blazing hot. After work, we try to do something along our rides, to delay going home. Just to suck out the sunny summery days as much as we can!

[marni]

I miss the change in seasons so much. In fact I miss seasons all together. Here in Houston we have hot and dry, hot and humid and cold and rainy but mostly the first two. Our local area water table is 7 feet below normal.

enjoy it.

[shootingstar]

Our local area water table is 7 feet below normal.

Quite dry.

Autumn in our neck of the woods is (to me) shorter in temperatures and leaf colour than other parts of Canada where I've lived. Strange as this may seem to some people, after experiencing many years in various parts of Canada...I feel I "know" Canada in ways I never dreamt of compared to if I had I lived all my life in only 1 region of Canada.

And to experience it all from the bike saddle, is a special treat.

[AppleTree]

Well said shootingstar. I was thinking along the same lines on Thursday, I was able to commute in to work and it was a perfect crisp morning and the sun was just coming up over the lake I ride by... and just turned the whole lake into a pool of molten gold. Wow. To me this time of year brings to mind Robert Frost poems, and the one "nothing gold can stay" ran through my mind as I rode in.

The NEXT morning commute was't quite so poetic though, it was foggy, and I thought it was only fog, but as I got going I realized it was a very fine misty rain. So I got to work a little on the damp side and my hair...well, we won't go there. I'm glad I had a barrette with me though.