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| Looking east at Collins Road and F Avenue NE. Never has a Fed Ex truck looked so good. I'm where I am so my bike is resting in just the right spot so the magnetic traffic detector will be triggered and the traffic light will change for me, in case you wonder why I seem dangerously close to Collins Road. |
I know it will be a blustery, cool ride home tonight, pumping
into the wind with lights on.
But, that’s OK. It’s
that time of year. We get a few freezes
under our belts, it drives a stake through the heart of any remaining mosquitoes, and the brown of the winter commute will start to appear. I’m ready.
This morning was unbelievably gorgeous. As I started out on the morning commute a few minutes after 7 a.m., I
felt like I was riding in the inside of a conch shell—the pearly white clouds
and pink light of the rising sun, combined with the soft baby blue of a newborn
day’s sky. Well, it was a 10 of a
morning. It’s been so dry that clouds
are a rare treat, and these were high and thin and broken, which made for a pretty
picture.
So even a breezy, damp, cool ride home won’t break the
mood. I parked inside Warde Hall by my office
(biker’s privilege, try parking your SUV inside when it rains). What little rain we had blew through quickly,
and frankly I would have been willing for much more.
But what a morning!
A much prettier view of the Iowa sunrise can be seen here, in a blog post
from a former newsman in my old town of Muscatine. That’s the Norbert F. Beckey bridge, that I
occasionally crossed in the late 1970s on a 1974 Schwinn Continental to reach a
nice park with a lake that was nearby in Illinois.
Nice as the morning sky was in Cedar Rapids, clearly having
a Mississippi nearby made it even more beautiful in Muscatine.
