Explored the lakeshore communities on today’s #bikeride - aka gawking at million dollar McMansions. Safer roads than yesterday. It was another hot day but wanted to get one more ride in. Will be busy with moving my son into his dorm and orientation & such for the rest of this trip.
Went on a longish bike ride on the northern side of Charlotte, NC. It was so hot that I forgot to take many photos. Kept hoping for more wooded roads like this but there was a lot of open farmland. Also roads with no shoulders and cars zooming by too close for comfort.
It is so nice to be in suburbs where I can get a decent cup of coffee when I decide to rest on the bike ride. There are many advantages of being in a rural area but coffee is nice.
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
- Steve Jobs
Found Mark Twain outside Cornelius public library during my first ever bike ride in the state of North Carolina.
Went for a 1.5 mile walk after driving 750 miles through 8 states during the day.
Grilled veggies, cheese, bread and lots of olive oil for dinner tonight. Oh yes, and rosé of course. Enjoying a beautiful cool evening.
Trifid nebula (M20) and Lagoon nebula (M8). Really like how the blue color of the reflection nebulosity in Trifid showed up. This is a stack of only 13 two minute exposures. The exposure time is limited because of the trees in the southern sky. Hope to get a couple more clear nights to add to this.
So much rain and thunder on the way to work this morning. It was hard to see the road. I pulled off the road the road for a few minutes for it to subside before driving on.
The famous “Pillars of creation” captured from my front yard.
It is an area of intense star forming activity at a distance of 7000 light years. Images from Hubble telescope in the 1990s greatly improved our understanding of star formation process.
This nebula is catalogued as M16 and also known as Eagle nebula or Star Queen nebula.
Saw my backyard hummingbird catching an insect this morning. Interesting! I thought they only drank nectar from flowers.
Heading off to orientation trip at college. Traveling all by himself for the first time. We will see him again next week but this is a big step. He won’t be back home for 3 months until Thanksgiving. The boy is becoming independent! 🥰🥹
Fedex has gotten so bad lately. At least half the packages that I receive are either delayed or diverted or not picked up on time or have some other issue with them. On the other hand, UPS has been very reliable with no problems.
I refuse to go near a place where this happens.
Boy, 6, dies after being shot in head by 9-year-old, Florida police say
Had a busy weekend pushing my son to get his stuff together as he packed to leave for college. Finally, he cleaned out his room. Now he will spend the last couple of days at home in a clean room while choosing to live in that pigsty for the last so many years. Can’t understand a teenager’s brain. I guess I was no different when I was his age.