We have had our first frost and now the temperatures have returned from last week's chilly daytime highs to the 20 degree Celsius mark, which is the very definition of Indian Summer. The last few days have been warm, sunny and dry. So far it has turned out to be a better season than the actual summer we got, which was very wet.
We haven't done enough quadracycling recently, due the weather last week and some injuries, but we had to get out today, as the day was so gorgeous that it could not be avoided.
The trees in the south part of Ottawa are starting to really change colours and even though the colours are a bit muted this year, probably due to the rain and lack of sunshine, they are still not bad at all. Passing by a city park in the area I had to stop and snap a photo to share the colours here.
So we cycled 14.2 km around the area. It is odd, but even for a Saturday there was a lot of traffic out on the roads. Maybe it was because gasoline is suddenly cheap due to the wild stock market situation and "economic downturn" so everyone is out driving. I don't know. I do know that everyone in the city we talked to seemed to be in a good mood - we got lots of positive comments, thumbs-up and smiles for our quadracycle today - more than we normally get I think. I attribute it more to the sunny warm day here in mid-October than their mutual fund performances. Regardless of the reasons, it is good to see everyone feeling so positive today.
The warm Indian Summer weather is forecast to continue for the next few days, before it gets much cooler next week. So we will probably take advantage of the weather and get out for a few more rides here on the Thanksgiving Weekend. After all we have much to be thankful for, beautiful weather for quadracycling at least!
Price of gas locally today $0.986
Total quadracycling for 2008 so far - 469.5 km
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