Took the LHT on a
28-mile circuit through Arlington, Lexington, Bedford, Concord, and Lincoln, following the Minuteman and Reformatory Branch outbound, returning via Monument Street, Lexington Road (Concord), Old Bedford Road (Concord), Virginia Road, Old Bedford Road (Lincoln), Hanscom Drive, Route 2A, Mill Street, Lexington Road (Lincoln), Lincoln Street (Lexington), Middle Street, Marrett Road, Mass. Ave., Maple Street, and then the Minuteman and home. I didn't start until 4:30, and focused on the riding, making good time as the bicycle worked its magic, translating pedal strokes into a succession of distinct places. Lovely day, milky sky, the temperature benignly balanced between warm and cool, enough breeze to notice, lots of other cyclists. Numerous photographs didn't get taken (with two exceptions, below), in favor of making time, and just drifted by as vagrant sense impressions that must be conveyed by word-pictures, or not at all. Of these, the best was the fisher that scampered across the Kiln Brook bridge on the Minuteman at Tophet Swamp, a beautiful animal that nimbly crossed the bridge on its lower rail, and disappeared.
Hanscom Field, seen from Virginia Road. I'm a 20th Century kid at heart, and have a soft spot in my head for aircraft of any sort.
The mudflats of Cambridge Reservoir, tastefully concealed by enough drinking water to horrify W.C. Fields.
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