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Mid-Ride Refueling Stop

Whalon Lake Loop Ride 20-May-2012

20May12 • • 0 comments

Summary The ride around Whalon Lake itself is about 1.6 miles. And if you ride into downtown Naperville along the River Walk Trail and back you will need to complete one final look of the lake to get an even 20 miles. Our refueling stop was the Jamba Juice and  Starbucks Coffee just across the [...]

Chicago Kids and Kites Festival 2012

Chicago Kids and Kites Festival Ride 2012

19May12 • • 0 comments

Summary The Chicago Kids and Kites Festival 2012 was a blast! The ChicagoKite.com site introduced it this way: May 19th 2012 MONTROSE Harbor 10-4 Come make a kite with the kids FREE! This year 108 countries will be represented at the event for the Nato weekend being hosted in chicago ! Special kite demos will [...]

Val Bochkov

Cyclists, Can You Hear Me Now?

19May12 • • 0 comments

JASON GAY nytimes.com By now you may know that I am one of those contemptible NYC cyclists—a confirmed, unrepentant member of the nefarious five-borough “Bike Wing Conspiracy” (whoever came up with that term is a genius)—and I support the city’s expanded network of bike paths and the whole wild bike boom in general, and I [...]

Image with applied blur filter and bokeh.

Photoshop : Iris Blur Filters

17May12 • • 0 comments

Summary One of the nifty things about the BLUR FILTERS in the new Photoshop 6 is that you can apply more than one IRIS filter at a time. This in essence allows you to concentrate the blur areas where you want or need them, leaving the un-blurred areas alone. When you get ready to begin [...]

Island Park Path in Geneva, IL

The best places for families to ride bikes in the suburbs

16May12 • • 0 comments

By Neil Holdway dailyherald.com Getting the family out on bicycles is a great way to get everyone away from electronic devices, exercising and doing something together while perhaps exploring the scenery. And the suburbs make it easy to do. Depending on where you live, you likely can ride around the neighborhood safely. But the suburbs offer [...]

Last Saturday’s kickoff ride – photo courtesy of RBG

Bike and proud: Red Bike and Green promotes cycling to African Americans

16May12 • • 0 comments

[This piece appeared in print in Checkerboard City, John's weekly transportation column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.] by JOHN GREENFIELD on APRIL 16, 2012 Source: http://gridchicago.com/2012/bike-and-proud-red-bike-and-green-promotes-cycling-to-african-americans/ All Chicagoans should have a chance to reap the benefits of urban biking: cheap, convenient transportation, improved physical and mental health, and good times with friends and family. The proliferation [...]

Bad Religion (cover)

‘Heretics’: The Crisis Of American Christianity

15May12 • • 0 comments

by NPR STAFF April 14, 2012 The United States ranks as the most religious country in the developed world. And New York Times columnist Ross Douthat says that despite our politics, debates and doubts, this country is as God-besotted today as ever. But in his new book, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, Douthat argues [...]

Bike The Drive - Southern Terminus

Bike The Drives Gone Bye

15May12 • • 0 comments

Summary A collection of images made over the past half decade of the Bike The Drive cycling event.

Field Blur and Bokeh Filter Applied

Photoshop 6 – Field Blur with Bokeh Effect Filter Test

15May12 • • 0 comments

Summary The folks at Adobe have been busy putting the finishing touches on their latest Creative Suite release. Photoshop is moving to CS6 and with that comes a rafter of new features. One of this is related to “controllable” blur effects. In the past the blur was indiscriminate in that it was not feathered to [...]

Liquified Leaves (Click to Enlarge)

Liquified Leaves and More…

14May12 • • 0 comments

Summary Adobe Photoshop has a nice filter that can be applied to just about anything. This one is labelled “LIQUIFY” and essentially gives the image a look reminiscent of that used by David Hockney back in the day when Polaroid SX-70 film was still available. The leaves that have undergone this filter look as if [...]

Foliage in our yard.

Plants Outside Our Home

13May12 • • 0 comments

Summary An assortment of the plants that provide a border around our front yard.

Haymarket Square Memorial

The Labor Ride 13-May-2012

13May12 • • 0 comments

Summary Rode to the Haymarket Square Memorial Statue and waited for the group to arrive from Humboldt Park. But we discovered that the flat I had fixed in the parking lot had not held. So we decided to drop out of the ride. When I got home it was finally discovered that the patching had [...]

Experimental Images : Forest Home Cemetery

Experimental Images : Forest Home Cemetery

13May12 • • 0 comments

Summary Experimental images from the Forest Home Cemetery series.

Ride the Rock 2012

Ride the Rock 2012

12May12 • • 0 comments

Summary “Ride the Rock” is a free, family 16-mile group bike ride and festival hosted by the Forest Preserve District of Will County and presented by Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center, the event’s title sponsor for 2012. “Ride the Rock” is returning for its sixth year on Saturday, May 12, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., [...]

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Connie McAyeal Passes…

11May12 • • 0 comments

With overwhelming sadness I have attached the obituary notice that will run in the Hillsboro Argus next week (text copied below)… Wo Constance “Connie” Leora McAyeal, 70, of North Plains, OR passed away peacefully of natural causes May 9, 2012 at her daughter’s home. Connie was born & raised in Hillsboro, OR to Robert & [...]

Lee Diamond leads Tour of Hyde Park

Tour of Hyde Park : Lee Diamond

10May12 • • 0 comments

Summary Images made during the 2009 Tour of Hyde Park ride led by Lee Diamond.

(Maria Nelson)

Cooling Off

9May12 • • 0 comments

Bridgeport’s Ramova Grill closes By Maria Nelson April 4, 2012 “This isn’t retro, this is vintage,” says Bill Gertos, stern but smiling. Busy frying up eggs over-easy, burgers, and hashbrowns seven days a week at the 82-year old Ramova Grill, Gertos has lately taken on another role behind the counter—historian and storyteller. Since the announcement in [...]

South Shore Cultural Center Portico

Where do old innertubes and pumps go to die?

9May12 • • 0 comments

Sharing Our Abundance My cycling club is about to reward itself once again. Each year we offer t-shirts and/or jerseys to those who have reached certain mileage milestones. And those who are capable ride leaders get rewarded with t-shirts/jerseys that acknowledge their contributions. A special club meeting is devoted to this ritual and everyone congratulates [...]

Connie, Lois and Jim Enjoy A Laugh

Midwest Recumbent Rallies of the Past

8May12 • • 0 comments

Summary A collection of experimental images from past Midwest Recumbent Rallies. All of these images were taken with Nikon Coolpix cameras. They were processed first in Adobe Lightroom 4 and then “finished up” in Adobe Photoshop 5.5. Enjoy!

Kathy preps her ICE trike for a group ride

Lake Front Trail Ride

8May12 • • 0 comments

Summary First it was off to Elmhurst to see the ICE trike bought by one of our EBC members Kathy. It’s a bright blue and very lightweight. Kathy says it rides effortlessly and is quite comfortable. The group taking off on a ride to the Old Graue Mill seemed quite interested in this new addition [...]

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