Grapes

Breakfast: fresh grapes, pineapple, mango, papaya, persimmon, poached eggs.

Typical Morning Commute

Dang it was cold this morning. 35 degrees when I left the house. There was fog along the Stevens Creek Trail -- I don't often see that in the mornings.

Arkel Tailrider on Tubus Fly

The Tubus Fly rack is too narrow for most trunk bags, but if you call up Arkel in Montreal, they'll make a Tailrider bag with extra long straps that will enable it to work on the Fly rack. The Tailrider is sufficiently low-profile and stiff to work in this configuration. I have not encountered any stability problems.

Canine POV

The end.

Puget Sound

Been pretty cold all week.

Southcenter Mall

Tukwilla, Washington

Academy of Science

View of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, seen from the observation deck of the DeYoung Museum. I was there for the Post-Impressionist exhibit, which was very crowded.

Train Station

Grand Central Station, New York. Panorama stitched from about 30 images taken with a normal prime lens.

Fifth Avenue

Empire State Building in the background.

Liberty from afar

Seen from the 10th floor of the old Port Authority building at 111 8th Avenue.

Seventh Avenue

At 46th Street. (Times Square).

28th Street Station

Near 7th Avenue.

Chocolate Mousse

Palace Cafe, Sunnyvale.

Palace Cafe interior

Nice place for a light dinner on Friday evenings. Four beers on tap: Devil's Canyon scotch ale, amber ale, and lager; and Santa Cruz IPA. Happy hour is until 7pm.

Not Spoiled

Smoked duck breast, arugula, whole grain mustard, and micro greens.

Bike and Shadow

Whisman Park Sunrise

Panorama stitched via hugin.

Bamboo gate

Entrance to Hakone Gardens in Saratoga used to be free, but you had to pay for parking. I went back this weekend on my bike, and now the entrance fee is $5 for everyone.

McRib is back

Available until December 5.

Zen garden

Hakone Gardens, Saratoga, California.

View from the bike bridge

Last commute-time sunrise before we go off daylight savings time this year.

Distant view of the dump

This was taken from one of the levies near the dump and wastewater treatment plant in Sunnyvale. Visible in this photo are an old landfill at the left part of the screen, some Yahoo office buildings, and Moffett Field buildings.

The Dump

The newly opened section of the Bay Trail between Sunnyvale and Mountain View starts right by the dump at the east end (in Sunnyvale).

Bay Trail at Dusk

Bay trail at dusk, looking east. Just north of Moffett Field.

New fork crown mount

New mount for my B&M Cyo light. It works much better with these brakes, although I did have to trim the mount in order to fit it under my lower headset race.