• After my dérailleur cable snapped, I wedged a rock in there to provide a decent gear.

  August 16, 2010

• Absolutely perfect day for a ride across Space Mtn & through Sycamore to the coast.

  August 16, 2010

• One last scene from my evening stroll Saturday night. Most of the vegetation is brown as can be, but there are a few signs of life here and there.

  August 15, 2010

• Just another snapshot from my evening stroll above Sycamore Canyon.

  August 15, 2010

• Saturday evening I took a stroll around the entrance of Sycamore Canyon, mostly thinking of my Aunt Max who is in the hospital, and not doing well. Looking around the hillsides, watching as the sun gets lower and lower – I took great comfort in being surrounded by God’s creation. Looking at this earth he has given us, I don’t think there’s any other place that I feel closer to Him.

  August 15, 2010

• There’s something I really enjoy about the tiny creatures of this earth, even if their stingers do pack a punch.

  August 15, 2010

• 10-year-old girl, pretending to be dead while playing with friend, appears on Google Maps street view.

  August 14, 2010

• Looking down onto the community I call home – Newbury Park – during Friday’s evening ride after work.

  August 14, 2010

• The mountains, they lure me, with their jagged ridge lines and sweeping shadows.

  August 14, 2010

• I’m trying to figure out if fall color is coming early, or if this is poison oak.

  August 14, 2010

• Sweet, hilly, twisty, wonderful singletrack. The late-day light didn’t exactly hurt either.

  August 14, 2010

• I didn’t have the best of rides tonight, flatting about 10 minutes into the ride.

  August 14, 2010

• As if Sebastian Ramirez of AVE-K News Service isn’t nice enough already, calling with news tips and supplying photos from breaking news, he iced the cake today by sending an amazing fruit arrangement to The Star, as a thank-you for working with him. What a guy!

  August 13, 2010

• Watching this car get out will resemble a scene from an Austin Powers movie.

  August 13, 2010

• I was thrilled to have a rest day today but I’m already itching to get back on the trail.

  August 13, 2010

• Donna just loves the Sunday budget meetings!

  August 12, 2010

• One last panoramic from the post-work ride. For the second night in a row I took the fully rigid Karate Monkey and I think my joints would have preferred full suspension.

  August 12, 2010

• Sunsets from the hills above Newbury Park never seem to get old. I actually needed a windbreaker for the descent into town. Brrr!

  August 12, 2010

• Four days in a row of somewhat serious riding and my legs are seriously ready for a few rest days. How I ever rode 7 days a week I’ll never know.

  August 12, 2010

• While dropping down the singletrack tonight a saw a bug dragging a tarantula across the trail, towards its nest. When I stopped to get a photo, the bug started coming towards me. It never did go back to dragging the tarantula, which is what I really wanted video of.

  August 11, 2010