It's always disappointing to look at the weather and see rain in the forecast on the weekend. Weekends and especially Saturdays are when I do my big ride of the week. I don't mind missing a few days of riding because of rain but it seems like we have had a lot of weekends with rain even though the rain totals are low this year.
Saturday was the predicted total wash out as there were on and off heavy rain all day. This is why this past Wednesday I did a hilly ride with some of the retired folks which was longer than my usual Wednesday rides.
I spent Saturday taking care of a few chores and taking a few experimental rain pictures. I found out that you can get some cool mirror affects if you focus closely on rain drops on a window.
If you click on the above picture to enlarge it you will see the chair and some flowers being reflected in the raindrops. I think with a little more practice I can make this even better.
In between the rain I took a picture of a few flowers in bloom on the patio to see how the rain looked on them. Cloudy light is the best light to get pictures of flowers. I got a decent shot of a red dahlia.
Luckily on Sunday there was a few hours of sunshine in the morning. As soon as I saw the sun as I woke up I got on my bike cloths and headed out. I was on the road by 7:30am and did a quick 30 mile ride. I was back home by 9:30am. This had to be the earliest I have gotten out for a ride in a long time. It was weird to be back so early but the forecast called for popup showers later in the morning and by 11:15am some light rain started followed by some large thunderstorm.
The forecast for the next week doesn't look great. I expect there will be clouds of mystery pourin' confusion on the ground as the song suggests. I just hope there will be some moments of clearing so I can get some riding in.
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