A brilliant day!

 

Start of the bike trail


Had such a fabulous day yesterday - it deserves its own post! It was a gloriously sunny day and a full fat 21 degrees. Finally I broke out my "new bike" and went on a a bit of an exploring mission - verily a ten-mile ride: The sunshine ride.  My pics probably don't tell a thousand words, so you'll have to make do with 100 (ish)!  This was my second visit to the lake; the first a few weeks ago was snowy, rainy and brrrrrrrrrrrrrr-ing cold! What a fabulous difference - although the water is still very high it was absolutely glorious as the sun skittered across the lake.  There was practically no-one around, so the (t)rusty steed features in the photos, as I was the photographer! 

The Bike Bpath!



Further along, I came upon the disused railway line - it used to run into Burlington but was stopped several years ago. Why then would there still be rolling stock here? How very untidy!

Spotted lots of wildlife, heaps of squirrels and even BABY squirrels - which I've never seen in the UK. Very sweet stripey coats they have. And yes, before you all comment like mad - I do now realise they were chipmunks :O)

Note the piles and piles of driftwood that's been washed up on the lake shore. Halfway along my ride I had to re-route as the bike path was completely underwater - it really is a lakeSIDE ride at the moment! 



Didn't see the beach (although I may have aquaplaned across it), guess I have to wait for the waters to recede a little. Not much traffic on the lake either - the Ro-Ro (Roll on - Roll off ferry) was more of a Flo-Flo!

Finally rewarded myself (diet going well then!) with an icecream - and spotted a Dasani vending machine! Remember the fiasco when it launched in the UK a few years ago? £1.50 for a bottle of Sidcup tap water anyone??? Not Coca Cola's finest hour!  Can't decide/remember if the story that Dasani was originally marketed in the UK with the tag line "Can't live without spunk" is true - surely NOT?

A quick trip through "Brixton" - actually a very multicultural area called "North End" and home to rest my - obviously by now tiny - backside!

And...just as we thought the weather was turning, today we have MASSIVE rain storms and - quelle excitement - my first "tornado watch" tonight!

(A tornado watch is in effect for the northern two thirds of Vermont until 8 p.m. today. The watch means atmospheric conditions are ripe for the possibility of tornadoes.) 

Leaving you with a couple more signs I spotted yesterday - the first of which super simple and self-explanatory, the second seems to be a statement of the bleedin' obvious and the third completely flummoxes me... how else would you stop a couple of speeding tons of metal?