Rain and rotten fruit

After a week of beautiful, sunny, clear skies and low humidity, it's raining again in Atlanta. Sadly, I had so much to get caught up on after all the time traveling that I didn't get out for much biking. Actually, almost zero, beyond generating daily errands. But I'm feeling more on top of my to-do list, which is down to only nine items.

I just made a smoothie, using some very overripe bananas (almost of the banana bread vintage) and was struck walking back to the computer how the taste and even the smell border on that Central America, fruit so ripe that most estadounidenses would consider it rotten. I regularly surprise people when I'm picking through the bananas to find something I won't need to put in a bag for two weeks to consider it edible. Fortunately, J hates raw bananas (bizarre, I know) so I get to buy and eat the bananas however I want.

Upcoming trips: to NYC to help with a bathroom renovation, to Arizona and southwest Georgia for protest support, and to the southern Nevada desert, for vacation with J (We're both excited, since we haven't done a vacation trip together in about a year and a half.)

Okay, blogging actually isn't one of the nine items on my to-do list, so... here are a few random photos from the last months of traveling:

This is my first of three flat tires in one day, patching it on a street corner in Brooklyn around 8am. The crossing guard across the street (the picture didn't come out) was visibly snickering at me.


On a sidewalk in San Francisco, in the North Beach neighborhood. Now, San Franciscans are exceptionally nice people, but going to the trouble and expense of treating something for bedbugs, and then donating it? Just call me D for Dubious.


About to ride over the GW bridge from NYC into New Jersey. Looks really inviting, huh?