Somehow this week was my first time back on a bicycle since Norway. It feels amazing to be able to use a bike to do useful work like running an errand or getting to an appointment faster than you could have driven.

Still well over 500 miles cycled for the year. My original goal of 1,000 is starting to fade a bit out of sight as colder weather looms, but who knows!

Beautiful weekend for the Air and Water Show. This year, we set up camp on the beach with a bunch of friends.

I spent a good chunk of the night before frantically digging through my closet for my old cameras and big glass, most of which hasn’t gotten a workout since our trip to Africa almost five years ago. A good reminder for me that a camera is like a hammer: a study, reliable tool that wants to be used, not babied.

Batteries, on the other head, are fragile volatile babies. Shockingly coaxed a few of them into taking a partial charge, but they’ll be treated with the side-eye any old lithium pack deserves going forward. Terrified that they’d just been slowly degrading in a bankers box for half a decade.

I really missed the feeling of a full-size SLR body with a big chunky battery grip that fits perfectly in your hand and just happily machine-guns 10 RAW frames a second all day long. It’s hard to imagine ever going back to carrying that kind of kit around, but I don’t see how I’ll ever be able to get rid of any of it.

Really need to rethink how I handle images on this site. Even a simple little lightbox would be a nice improvement. Add it to the to-do list…