Did another round trip to Dexter (Baker Rd.) today, on a chilly morning. When I began, at 9:10, it was 46° (though it had heated up to a toasty 51° by the time I finished). However, it remained heavily cloud covered throughout, with some light rain falling in the second half of the ride, that spattered on my glasses, turning them into prisms. However (fortunately, coupled with the cold) the rain was never heavy or steady. I rode in shorts and a hoodie, and was comfortable, but I wondered how many more times in 2018 I'll be able to get away with riding in shorts.
At Baker Rd., when I turned around, just as I was starting back toward Ann Arbor, I stopped and took this picture to illustrate how bleak it was. It made me muse how much bleaker still it will look two or three months from now! I wonder, too, whether I will still be able to ride then. Cold doesn't really bother me, but I will not ride in or through heavy snow.
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