Slow Sunday Scenes in the Village: Mixing it UP
Southern California can be a funny place, you know? It has, probably, always been populated by wishful thinkers, and this time of year has always been the best time to see them in their element. It may have been around 70 degrees by 10:30 this morning, but tomorrow is December 1st dang it, so it is time for Uggs and heavy sweaters, beanies and gloves. Then there are those, the realists, of contrary opinion who ride by wearing thin lycra and little more. Unsurprisingly, most folks this morning were somewhere in between, even us bicyclists, many of whom had started out some two or more hours earlier knew to wear windbreakers. It is the season to layer. You know, i can't tell you how many times i've turned around mid-ride in order to snap a pic of something i noticed in passing. This morning there was a portion of street that had been painted purposeful pink with the fallen flowers of a couple eucalyptus trees. I thought of making a u-turn, but then with the next thought, didn...
