This morning had a glimmer of hope… a hint of a sunrise starting early on.
But the clouds won out and we never quite got a sunrise to speak of.

Very windy, not quite as nice this morning. With the wind coming from the west, it’s always a fun ride when it gusts “between” the buildings along Lake Shore Drive. Glad I put the extra layers back on… sweat & wind don’t mix so well.

A short blast of sunny Spring yesterday, followed by more nice weather today!
Adds up to a beautiful sunrise bike ride for me… with a few less clothing layers
than I’ve become accustomed to!!!

Yesterday I woke up to snow falling on the first day of Spring.
This morning it was foggy all along the lakefront.
Spring doesn’t seem to be off to a great start?

Still better than a “polar vortex” though!!!

This morning I had some “technical difficulties” as I had forgotten to recharge the battery in my camera. I got about nine shots before it died. And then the below-freezing temps zapped the battery in my iPhone after about six more shots. Frozen. Dead.

Luckily, I did get to see the undulating waves of slush along the shore. Literally. Slush. Like a really big Slurpee! This is the same area that had the huge piles of frozen shards everywhere!

Luckily I got a few nice pictures, but none when the sun actually made an appearance.

Shoot. But I couldn’t…

Good thing I started out today with another sunrise bike ride…
I’m pretty sure I will be doing some “damage” with at least a “few” pieces of pie!!!
I’m pretty sure there weren’t enough miles this morning to make up for the “damage”
I plan on doing today!!!

Soon enough the red skies turned orange…

Yet as the sun finally made it over the horizon, the sky continued to get a bit darker & more dramatic. A beautiful sunrise through all of its transitions.

The sunrise never quite came out today. It tried… it thought about it.

Instead, we got a kind of pastel, layered sunrise hovering low on the horizon adding to a beautiful reflection downtown.

The lake might have been melted around Montrose Harbor, but up my Bryn Mawr it was a much different story. Huge frozen shards piled up all along the lakefront… with more icebergs floating out past the wreckage!

The clouds moved in, grew dark and I got one last dramatic shot as I prepared to pedal home…

As I turned around and had almost made it home,
the clouds began to scatter and sweep across the sky with an intriguing assortment of pastel sunrise colors.