Seventy-fifth Birthday Ride

 No, not mine - the gal on the horse. Well, one of the gals on a horse; there were about sixteen of them, though quite a few were a much younger age and, since I'm going on about it, a couple were men. Anyway, a nice winter morning ride seemed like an awesome way to celebrate a seventy-fifth year around the sun, and I said so as I pulled over to let the line of riders pass. 


As I said, it was a beauty of a day to begin with, the wild flowers are really beginning to bloom, which is making the bees happy, green is sprouting from the tips of the sycamore branches, there is still water flowing in the normally dry washes, so the celebratory mood must have made it even better. Not a single rider failed to say hello, or good morning, or nice day for a ride, etc., as they hoofed it on past. Once the roving party had moved along up the trail, I got back to my run down the Cucamonga Creek Trail, that most fun, bumpy part that narrows to just a single track weaving around the yuccas and stuff, sinks into sand here and there, and has you on the verge of calling out whoop, whoop to the crows up on the line. A good day all in all.

green along the Heights Trail

pics just don't do those two trees justice - that is some brilliant yellow down there

none, least ways around the water tanks

up the trail

down the trail, to the canyon bottom

a sycamore in the wash of the Cucamonga




finishing the loop by riding through the Colleges, where there was plenty of athletics taking place - track and field at Pomona College...

way clear...

Biola on the runway...

and then the scrum of women's rugby at CMC where, as it turns out, it is also Alumni Weekend

Comments