You know it is fall when you have to put on a jacket to do a ride. For the past few weeks I have been enjoying some fall rides. We haven't had any rain in over a month so there has been no excuse to not get out and ride. Even with the dry weather the foliage has been pretty good. The leave are mostly off the trees now but we had a couple of good weeks of color.
Besides rides through the Assimpink and the Pinelands to see the foliage I also did a couple of rides to see the Halloween display.
The decorations in Lambertville were the usual strange displays. I was a little disappointed by the ones in Bordentown. I did a few extra passes through the town on my normal Bordentown ride but did not see anything spectacular as I have seen there in years past. A lot of people are just buying some blow up monsters or skeletons so there wasn't anything real original.
The weather has been warmer than normal for fall. We actually have a few 70 and 80 degree days that I took advantage of. The dry conditions have led to a few wildfires in my area. There was one fire called the Shotgun fire (caused by some jerk who used illegal magnesium in his shotgun shells which caused the ensuing sparks to ignite the firing range) that is only 7 miles west of where I live. Although there is no danger of the fire coming my way it has made the air unhealthy at times when the wind it blowing in the wrong direction.
Now that the leaves are off the trees I know the weather will be getting cooler and my rides will be getting shorter. Hopefully the mild winter predicted will be true and I can get through the winter without having any major interruptions in my riding.