Entrance/Exit

Depending on which way you are going on Ephrata's Linear Trail, today's photo could be considered either the entrance or exit.  Anytime I want to go for a real quick bike ride, this is always my destination.  It is such a nice little trail, filled with friendly people and dogs, and it is (mostly) surrounded by trees...not something that can be said of most of Ephrata, PA.  Getting off the trail today, the clouds looked nice and dramatic behind these buildings, one of which was at one point in time a mill, all of which are rather old.  I took the photograph and edited it just a tad to get that old postcard-like look...

  A Picture Perfect Postcard

If you look close enough, you can see Ephrata's derailed caboose.  It's the red thing above and to the left of the white sedan in the middle-ground.  There is a pole in front of it.

Green Dragon

I was going to post a time lapse video of the sun rising at the Green Dragon (our local flea market).  The file was too bid and I don't have time to figure out how to compress it...this was my first attempt at a time lapse video.  I'm heading out for a canoe trip, so I will have to use the other pictures I got from the Green Dragon this morning.

Sir

While shooting my video, a guy on a bike rode up.  It was this guy, a good friend of mine.  He was biking back from work.

Bench

I told him we should get breakfast at the Green Dragon (it was 6 in the morning).  He agreed.  On our way to food we passed this.

Jake and Leona's

This is where we ate.  It was good food.

Deconstructing A Bicycle: The Tire

Here is the next piece in the the Deconstructing A Bicycle series.  This is the rubber wheel pulled off the rim. 

Shin Tyre

The plug cap is useless.  This old tire has more than it's fair share of holes and tears.

Just Walk On By

I rode my bike to a trail by my house today.  I then proceeded to sit down with a good book...as well as my camera next to me...looking like a camera.  But instead of it just sitting there, it was taking video of the feet that walked by me.  After some good reading and some good footage, I went home and extracted one frame from every group of people or individual that walked past me.  After putting them in chronological order, I ended up with this...

Bikes, Strollers, and Shoes

It was interesting to hear bits and pieces of different conversations.  My desire was to string them together as well, but apparently I had something mostly covering the microphone.  All I could make out was the shriek of the child in the stroller.

Deconstructing A Bicycle: Rims and Spokes

I spent a good portion of today ripping a tire off of my dying bike's wheel.  It was much more difficult than it should have been.  The exposed rim and loosely hanging spokes had a lot of character as a whole, stopping me from doing some close up/macro shots (which was my initial intention). 

Like an Eye

...staring you down from the edge of a table. 

 Relaxing In The Corner

As a child, I would have had just as much fun with this piece of a bicycle as I would have had with the full thing.