which brings me to how far we rode this season…
“Wow, that’s a lot of kilometres,” a then-friend said when he saw the number on my odometer. “Is it?” I replied. I started riding in September 2021 and chalked…
blue’s last loop this season
I was supposed to ride with Chuck Warnes and Keith Green of the Ottawa Motorcycle Misfits FB group. As promised, they texted at 10:00 am to tell me where…
my riding season isn’t over yet…
It’s October 25 and, not surprisingly, some Canadian riders have already put their ‘babies’ to bed. I’m not one of them. I’m not quite done yet. I reckon there…
the moto cycle
Am I right? At least in eastern Ontario! moto cycle: a seasonal poem in four parts by susan © 2023 Read here: moto cycle: a seasonal poem in…
18 first-snow pics from in and around my place
We had our first big storm of the winter season in eastern Ontario on Friday, December 16, 2022. I took some pics in and around my place the day…
surprise ride
It was November 26, 2022. I was drinking apple juice and biting into the first of three leftover Easter eggs – the little ones wrapped in various colours of…
country, music and cats
The black and white beauty above is my friend Judith’s cat, Oreo. Oreo is a sweetheart. Stubborn at times. But a sweetheart nevertheless. On the Sunday before Halloween, I…
13 late-night almonte images to mark halloween 2022
Some random late-night images, which I took in the streets of Almonte toward the end of October 2022. Click on the image below to see the rest. Happy Halloween….
last rides
The feeling of riding a motorcycle is hard to capture in words. The joy of doing so when Canadian autumn colours are at their most beautiful is impossible –…