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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Summary A collection of images made over the past half decade of the Bike The Drive cycling event.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Summary An assortment of the plants that provide a border around our front yard.
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 [...]
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., [...]
Summary Images made during the 2009 Tour of Hyde Park ride led by Lee Diamond.
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!
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 [...]
Summary Greg Borzo led a ride like the one the day before with Anne Alt in search of Architectural Beauty. This time rather than the stately gardens and gates of Beverly Hills we toured the downtown area of Chicago and then headed south to Hyde Park to witness some of the splendor that was the
Summary The weather today was very overcast and cold. At times there appeared to be misting on the windshield of the van as we drove southeast to the Beverly Hills Neighborhood on Chicago’s far south side. Anne Alt was to lead a ride of 13 riders in and around the environs of Beverly from a [...]
Summary Folks On Spokes Club website: http://www.folksonspokes.com/ Every ride report has to have an epic moment in which the narrator and his companions surmount a personal best and ride into the sunset more than mere mortals. Well I had a flat on my ride. Or as the Brits call them “punctures”. Last night I had dreamt [...]
Summary Elmhurst Bicycle Club canceled most of its rides this morning. I for one thought that by the time we reached Chicago I would have decided that the weather was too raw to venture out on the bikes. But as luck would have it my arthritis did not prevail and so off we rode in [...]
Summary If you ever get a hankering to learn to improve your climbing skills, ride in and around the southeast areas in Wisconsin. That will make a vast improvement in your cardiovascular and muscular efficiency in no time flat. Just remember to give your butt a day or two to recover before trying it again. [...]
Summary Today we rode from the Wheel and Sprocket store parking lot in Hales Corners, WI to downtown Wauwatosa along the Root River Trail. We were joined by Tom and Marjorie Rice. They were aboard their newly purchased Double Vision tandem recumbent. We rode along at a comfortable pace as they practiced starting, stopping and [...]
Plot Summary (Source) The story of Rip Van Winkle is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. In a pleasant village, at the foot of New York’s “Kaatskill” Mountains, lives the kindly Rip Van Winkle, a colonial British-American villager of Dutch descent. Rip is an amiable though somewhat hermitic man who enjoys solitary activities in the wilderness, [...]
Summary On a recent ride in the City of Chicago we took Jefferson north towards Kinzie before crossing the Chicago River on our way north to view an Urban Farm near Division and Clybourn I came across a corner building painted with political figures. I offer then for your consideration. Never let it be said [...]
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