Friday 21 September 2012

22nd September; Autumn...


Officially starts today but there has been a noticeable change in temperature in the last week.
The workload of the Wettest, and hardest going summer at work is fading from memory as i look forward to the end of the month and we start shorter winter hours of 8am - 3pm -:)
I prefer cooler to warmer weather for cycling, us Scots are not designed for heat!, in fact for myself the colder the better - bring on -18C like in 2010/11 winter!.

Home after 3pm soon and i can be out cycling before 5pm.
I can then get daylight, sunset and a night ride into a 3 hour ride,  then home to a warming fire  and a post ride cider -warms the body and the soul...


Scenically the county looks lovely in its harvest gold - though you gotta be quick to get pictures as fields are quickly being ploughed over...

Views from Whitekirk Hill...


Need to repaint the trig point on the hill at work again...





Sunrise is around 7am, sunset just after 7pm and a few signs of Autumn are there to see...
8 degrees in the mornings and hopefully some frosts will  start to turn the trees golden.
be a month or so till we see this...

Gosford 2010...

Yester Woods 2010...

Pencaitland 2010...

Mountain biking through a wooded carpet of leaves is great, and even  better with friends...

The first V formations of geese have been arriving back from summer grazing and breeding in Greenland. In a few weeks they will arrive in East Lothian in their thousands, grazing on fields between the Longniddry - Drem - North Berwick area then flying down to Aberlady Bay before sunset.
Always a great sight...

Aberlady Bay 2011...






And early evening low tide beach rides on clear evenings are great.
Fantastic light and golden sunsets with geese overhead...

October 2010...










One of my favourite rides ever, amazing evening, the light, sunset and wildlife, will never forget this ride at Gosford Bay...




Got the Salsa Fargo rolling this week and looking forward to getting some miles on it over the weekend...


What a lovely bike to ride, will do a post next week....

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