This grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is similar to the great blue heron (Ardea herodias) we see often near home in Virginia.
Groundhog on a stump
A little bike ride in high heat and humidity
Ride 29, Mon July 2nd, 9:40am, Heritage Trail and Canal Path loop x 2, 6.4 miles, 45 mins, with Charlie and Leslie, 7:02 pace, 8.53 mph, 90F 32C 45% 77DP, failed to start our apps. This spot was under two or three feet of rushing water a week earlier.
Looking behind the rock garden
A fox maybe? At 1:37 in the morning on June 28th:
Three weeks earlier, same spot, also about 1:30 in the morning:
At Braehead Farm
After berry picking:
A long shot
Two bikers contemplate the end of the road
Hyperion run flooded: Heritage Trail under water
Above, photo by Sarah of Joanne and me on Fall Hill Drive, Fredericksburg, Virginia, midway through the regular Saturday 6-miler from Hyperion Espresso. (The trail is on the far side of that guard rail.) And below, a police officer’s photo from the opposite side of the river that day, on River Road at the entry to Falmouth Beach.
Fathers Day 10k Race
Our first foot race together, Erin’s second 10k race, and her first women’s first place award. Erin’s time 54:01, mine 54:05. It was Bishops Events’ Fathers Day races, Old Mill Park, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
High Bridge Trail, Farmville, Virginia
Edwin, Randy, Bonnie, Trudy. We left Farmville about 10:30am, biked east about 15 miles at a leisurely pace to our picnic at the abrupt end of the trail in the woods near Burkeville. Then back, stopping here and there when we felt like it, including here at the bridge about 3:15pm.
Here’s a photo of the bridge displayed by FarmvilleVa.com:
Election Day
Simultaneous primary elections for Democratic nomination for US Congress and Republican nomination for US Senate (but you can only vote in one). We counted 139 D ballots, 404 R ballots, and 543 voters, about 10% of our precinct’s registered voters.
Judy M, John & Lois S, Judy F, Vance C, Gloria C, Edwin R