Tag: Loop
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Mid-May Morning Ride
A Mid-May Morning Ride On The Tucson Loop Bright morning sun40 degrees of the eastern horizon Mountains in pale silhouetteNorth, south, and east The mountains to the westBright, jagged and sharpFacing the sun in the eastLike the ragged incisorsOf some carnivorous feral beast Four coteries of weiniesAlmost always in a big hurry A few leisure…
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Mid-May Morning Ride On The Tucson Loop
Mid-May Morning Ride On The Tucson Loop Rode out under another pristine skyNot a single cloud shading Sol’s eye The sandy Santa CruzOnce again, bone dry The season of yellowOn pause or at an end A few faded Brittlebush blossomsFluttering pale yellow in the gentle breeze In the High Sonoran ‘dry season’Between the winter rains…
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Saturday Morning Ride
Saturday Morning Ride In Early May pristine, May, cloudless skyriding south through long shadowscrisp, clean lineslike quick reference pointsif one knew how to read themthe sun sitting at 10 o’clockoff the eastern horizon the path was crowded todaybikies, runners, walker, and joggersweekend warriors out on displaytrying to squeeze thirty milesinto 2 or three hoursif their…
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Morning Ride On Cinco De Mayo
Morning Ride On Cinco De Mayo the gentle, penetrating overnight rainfinally ended just after sunrise heavy clouds kept the humidity highwhile the air was chill for my three hour ride standing water dappled the washesand riverbed, gullying in one edge or the otherand the trees and shrubs wereiridescent in vibrant shades of greenwhile new Brittlebush…
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Last Saturday Morning Ride In April
Last Saturday Morning Ride In April Sun sat at about 40° off the horizonHazy through the folds of cloudsLike rippled veils overheadTree shadows soft and indistinct A couple of Roadrunners crossedOur path, along with a fewMorning doves and SparrowsThat took to the sky as we road by There was a family of Prairie DogsStanding in…
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Blue Skies…
blue skies common enoughin the high Sonoran bright sun-etchedbar and QR codes specify place and bearingon this narrow pathway the riverbed sandy and drygreen and yellow splotches deep in its sway with desert trees and shrubsroots to the flowing river below ground out of sight since the 1950sonly flows above ground in downpours now yes,…
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Mid April Morning Ride
A Mid April Morning Ride bright blue skya circular roll of cloudsaround the Tucson basinlike the city just blewa giant smoke ringwhich rolled ever so slowlyout to the four square horizonsending in a marble skyby the return home not many on the Loop todaya few morning dovesalong the wayand a few spandex-cladbikies in a hurry…
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A Morning Ride In Early April
A Morning Ride In Early April – Tucson Loop a hazy sun burned through gossamer cloudsabout eleven o’clock in the eastern skywhile iridescent blue backdroppedthe Tucson Mountains not far west started slow, only a roadrunner, a cottontail, and a skinkthen, almost too quickly, the crowds emergedspandex weinies, walkers, and joggers galorehardly any space between the…
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Blue Skies Starting My Day
Blue Skies Starting My Day rode out under morning blue skiesa few wispy white brush strokestoward the south eastern horizon a very quiet morningexcept for the occasionallow flying jets from Davis-Monthan parade tracks in the drysandy river watercourseanimal and human and ATV relatively coolno breezebut for that my pedaling made saw a catferal, domestic, or…
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Last Loop Ride Of March 2026
Last Tucson Loop Ride Of March 2026 a lightly marbled skyabove us riding in a linethree of us on this morning ride quite a few spandex-clad bikiesspeeding by in both directionscutting in and outalways in a hurryto who knows where never really paid attention till todaythe weenies were all around my agehad just previously assumed…
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