A new color in the hallway.**
Daffodil sunshiny yellow as counterpoint to a Pacific Northwest winter and a new happy color on my Siren that has come back home!
Scott is building my Siren up right now so I can ride it tomorrow. And I quote “Why do you want gears anyway?”
I remember an essay from high school english that was assigned after reading Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest on the theme of ignorance is bliss. After returning to mountain biking in 2007 after almost 8 years off (! sad dark years best forgotten), I bought an Enduro. I happily rode the Enduro on the Shore, in Squamish, on the ‘epic’ XC trails of Whistler. Plans to ride in the Chilcotens thwarted only by a broken arm. Heck, the Enduro even raced in the 2008 BC Bike Race to a solid mid-pack finish. Then sweetest Scott was in my life…taking me to the open xc goodness in southern Cali, letting me ride and race his 29′er single speed.
Sweetest Scott and his arsenal of sweet XC thrills meant the Enduro was judged to be lacking. Blissful ignorance replaced with lust. Bike lust was soothed with the Siren. Now I simply lust after speed and skill and the desire to be fast!!
**My favorite part of this picture, aside from Oskar Kat sitting guard under the wine, is the postcard on the lower right hand corner of the framed geological sections. A postcard I found a couple of years ago in a box of paperwork. A postcard to me, from Scott, when he was travelling in France to attend a conference on his research at Mines. Many years between then and now…how different life would be if we had found the courage to go on a date over 10 years ago…
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