Photo Fairy Tail

I have finally given into peer pressure and started a 365 project. To those of you who do not know what this is, it is where you take a photo every day for a year and post it online. I also have the exciting news that I have a real internet domain now. For now it is still through blogger

Here is page one (picture number one)

You can find all the others at this address: http://www.photofairytail.com

A Noon Romp

I'm still tired and brain dead from this ride so no real good stories today. This ride was a lot of fun, but I have found out since getting back that the trail is meant for rather advanced riders. Well that explains why I thought I was going to kill myself a couple times there.....

An Evening Jaunt (I hope you like green)

YES!!!


If you do not know what this is, look at the third photograph in the previous post.

That aside, I have no real witty observation today. Mostly just the comment that the [enjoyable] effort I put into and the wasp sting I received to get my ol' mountain bike in working order and bike rack was all worth it to be able to ride again.

Here's my trip down the same trail as the last post, except a much further distance was traveled.



I like railroads, don't really know why, probably a childhood fascination of mine. So of course I like taking photos of said things, and that that goes on them. We have learned that the track along this trail is active, but tell me how several tons can be supported by THIS



I know when this picture was taken, but I do not recall taking it.... Oh well, I like it



How can I pass up a real mountain bike trail that is off the paved road? And I mean look at it. It looks nice a relaxing and enjoyable.



WRONG!!! The trail was awful, and apparently meant to be taken from the other direction than the one I came from. There were just awful spots that you could not feasibly ride up. The photos I took of the trail itself ended up blurry, so I'm not posting them here. One is up on my flickr however.

However-

Purrrrty



I never take pictures of myself, so:

During (equipped with dopey grin)



After (Get a haircut you dang hippy!)

An Evening Ride

Went for a nice ride this past Saturday evening with my roommate. We were expecting to do a 10 mile ride, but that did not happen thanks to the antics of a certain someone (Wasn't me for once! May very well be the first time too!) My roommate, Kelsey was wondering about why I was bringing my camera along, I attempted to convince her saying that whenever doing stuff like this, you should always have your camera. It is better to lug the sucker around and not take a single shot, then to ever have the feeling of, "dang, I wish I had my camera."

I showed her.



Just a little left of the "51" is where the shenanigans happened. Kelsey rockets down this hill ahead of me and at the bottom of it there is a left hand curve. All I see is her pull of this amazing trick. She does a 360 and lets the bike go under her legs and she sticks the landing. The bike however...



I am far from a bike expert, but I don't think its supposed to look like that. To those of you wondering, as I said she stuck the landing on her feet and got away with only a little scrape. We will have to wait for her to comment either on facebook or here for her version of the story. I personally think she just didn't feel like doing a full ten mile ride (even if it was her idea)



So for once, I didn't hurt myself, and I wasn't the one breaking a bike. I gave her mine so she could get the car. Well, had to entertain myself somehow.