For the past year, I've been cycling ten miles a day, four times a week, and getting nowhere. A stationary bike, may not take you places, but an active imagination can take you anywhere! I "travel" through wine country in France, and California, or even Canada's own Niagara and Okanagan regions, without ever leaving home.
Three years ago, I borrowed a generous Torontonian's turquoise-mint green bicycle, for a photoshoot in the park next door (https://widowsendorphins.blogspot.com/2016/08/balance-and-bicycles.html)
The photographs survive, in my computer archives. The flowers in the park, however, are gone. They've been dug up, in preparation for the expanded excavation of the reservoir lands. You've heard the sarcastic expression, "take a picture, it'll last longer"? It's true!
The park next door is not the only site undergoing massive reconstruction. The complex where I live, is undergoing major reconstruction of our balconies. Gone. along with the balconies, are windowboxes and planters which would be overflowing with roses, fuchsias, geraniums, begonias, dahlias, lobelia, and sweet potato vines.
In search of flora and fauna, I also have fun, exploring the chrome and bright colours of the bikes in our bike racks. The daylilies growing nearby, are a cheerful backdrop to the black and chrome handlebars of bikes, ever ready to be whisked away by their owners, on a sunny afternoon.
I am drawn to circles, and bright colours, so photographing bicycles is always a joy. These gleaming, new bikes were parked outside of a cycling shop in Steveston, British Columbia last July. I look at these photographs, and recall the freshess of the salt air, and warmth of the sun that afternoon. Happy in the knowledge, that I will return!
Photographs Copyright of: Ruth Adams, Widow's Endorphins Photographic Images Incorporated.
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