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January 21st, A Taste of Winter
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After months of dreary weather we're spending a few weeks in a more traditional Michigan winter scene.
Temperatures well below freezing and snow on the way. Not that I'll like it for long but a bit of attitude
to the weather will be briefly welcome. Harbor park has frozen over although not yet enough for ice fishing
and if we hit the lows expected we should get a good bit of ice on the river.
After a visit to B3 (Bikes Blades and Boards) yesterday I'm stocked up on Triflow for the bike and
managed to grab some thinsulate gloves from a hardware store whilst there. The last pair of inner
gloves were left on the back seat of a taxi and join my collection of items left in taxis that include
umbrellas, coats and most painful a digital camera (Fuji Finepix).
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| | Harbor Park gets its ice on |
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| | The bike still handling the snow (no rust yet) |
January 15th, IC !!
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After a few months of non-Winter we look to be getting an icy blast from up North. If it hangs around long enough
we may even have snow for the WinterBlast! For the last couple of days we've had superchilled rain falling that
transforms into a sheet of ice on hitting a surface. Nowhere near as problematic as it has been in some places to the
west of here but enough to make sidewalks and some roads interesting to navigate. In weather like this I find the
solid traction of two good mountain bike wheels added to by a good bit of angular momentum make the bike much more
solid than foot transport. Yesterday I was crossing the footbridge from eastern market over the highway towards gratiot
when I spotted that under the wheels was pure ice. On the bike I hadn't noticed but when i got off and put
my foot on it there was no way I could have walked over it! So here area few shots of around town taken Sunday in the
ice-rain.
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| | Water falls and instantly Ice coats a pipe in Eastern Market. Summer a long way off! |
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| | Ice coats the trees around elmwood lake |
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| | This is the handrail of the footbridge by eastern market! |
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| | Hanging from every dripping surface |
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