Lots of sunrise drama this morning… crazy cool clouds, windy gusts in all directions & plenty of waves crashing all around!!! So much fun. So much excitement. Kinda challenging though… catching a good crashing wave photo & pedaling into the wind… seemingly in all directions?!

Colorful clouds & calm waters. Another serene morning along the lake with rippled reflections & tranquil skies. Another beautiful start to the day…

Not a cloud in the sky… clear skies & calm waters.
A quiet morning along the lakefront.

With a narrow band of clouds floating low on the horizon, it was a waiting game to see the sun this morning. And to find out if it was going to come up & illuminate the clouds with color… or just come up in front with no fun “cloud-play.” Sadly, it was the latter of the two… still pretty, but not a lot of sunrise spectacle!

There should be a skyline out there somewhere?! Let alone a horizon line!!! Welcome to a monochromatic Monday in Chicago. Lots of clouds & foggy haze covering the City. The temperature isn’t that bad yet… but the humidity!!! Yikes!!! All I had to do was LOOK at my bike and started sweating! It felt like six-thousand percent humidity!!! I was just a drippy sweaty mess!!! Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate…

Foggy, hazy., cloudy, humid, windy… your choice! We had them all this morning. So many clouds that I had pretty much given up on seeing the sunrise… and then it finally “burned’ its way through the clouds. Just enough for some great reflections on the calm & still water.

After a week without a bike, it felt great to get back in the saddle again this morning!
Cool temps, gentle breeze & colorful clouds. Oh, how I’ve missed you sunrise!!!

It was a crazy mix of clouds & smoke this morning!!! With the smoke from the Canadian wildfires making it’s way to Chicago, we had poor air quality & even poorer visibility. Not much of a sunrise as it was struggling behind the clouds & smoke. There was such a smoky “fog” engulfing the lakefront…. practically obliterating the view of the downtown skyline. CRAZY!!!

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer! Another warm morning with no breeze along the lake… sweaty!!! Perfectly still waters for shimmering reflections as the clouds dappled the sunrise view.

Not a lot of clouds this morning… but the few we did get really worked some magic. Just a layer of low-flying clouds on the horizon. But when the sun finally worked its way through, we got some great layered-sun looks & shimmering reflections. Definitely worth the wait.