Cia and I have had many lovely bike rides this summer. Just yesterday, around 5:00, we came home from a trip down to the Florence Griswold Museum and quickly loaded our bikes on the car, drove over to Old Mystic, parked and unloaded the bikes and set off for a fun-loving ride down to Wolfneck and around to Shewville and back to Old Mystic, about 8 easy but still draining miles.  We've done many rides along lovely River Road, and a few days ago we parked the car at The Road Church and then rode about 8 miles along Wheeler Road, past the rolling green hills of a golf course and up and down a few friendly hills and then down the wide shoulder of 184 to Al Harvey Road and its farms with cows and sheep in the sunshine. 

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This morning, all by my lonesome (Cia is in NYC for the day with a friend), I took a fairly fast ride down River Road and back under spreading misty skies -- good skies for a guy full of lonesomeness for his dearest one. 

* The Mystic River on a misty morning *