More photography

Posting and captioning photos is way easier than trying to be witty in paragraph after paragraph.

Here's BeanSS making the ascent into the trail system - such as it is - at the west campus of Pima Community College. Notice the long shadows just before sunset.

BeanSS again, looking radiant in the still-setting sun.

Not one minute later - where the hell did the sun go? I suppose we knew this was going to happen, because we at least had the sense to leave the dark sunglasses at home.

The concern over the dwindling daylight was due to the fact that all we had were these tiny little lights. Look closely, and you can see one on my bars. There's a similar one with a red lens on the seatpost. A pair of dinky LEDs powered by watch batteries the size of as nickel were going to have to get us through the ride, including dicing it up with cars on the pavement sections on the way back home.

 

Well, screw the little lights and the oncoming twilight, we had a ride to finish.

 

It all ended up OK, but next time we set out for what we think is going to become a night ride, we're bringing our real bike lights.