20 miles before supper to Depot Park, Bedford, and back on the Minuteman, dodging in and out of gentle Summer showers, trees dripping, puddles splashing. A little girl pedaling away behind her father on a tandem trailer sang, "It's raining, it's pouring...". The real weather was visible, but at a safe distance.
The Shawsheen River has a healthier flow today than during the recent dry spell, but a muddy band on its banks suggests that it could do with a bit more rain.
Overheard conversational fragment in Lexington Center, between a young couple on new-looking road bikes:
He - "That has to be the most-run Stop sign in America"
She - "Why?"
He - "I never stop there."
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