Another beautiful sunrise with clear skies, warmer weather & smooth water perfect for some rippled reflections. A quiet & serene ride to start my day… and now it’s off to the studio to fire the soda kiln!!! At least I got to play outside a little today!

Clear skies with cool breezes. It’s the first day of September, and I hate to admit that it feels like Summer is slowly coming to an end. It was chilly enough this morning that I actually put on long sleeves! I’m not ready for this… I WANT MORE SUMMER!!!

With dark clouds in the sky, you could literally hear the drama as I pedaled up to the lakefront. Waves crashing in all around. Yet timing is everything… and hard to stop taking photos when there are so many picture-perfect splashes. The challenge is catching them… as timing is everything. So there are still a lot of photos here… fifty-three… but I think I did a pretty good job of narrowing it down from the 169 photos I came home with!!! You’re welcome…

Another morning, another ride, another sunrise. And a perfect chance to work some of that lingering lactic acid out of my legs. A quiet start to the day… plus some “structural” sunrise fun with the set-up for the AVP Beach Volleyball Tournament down at Oak Street Beach this weekend.

Today started out very, very early… about 4:00am… with a drive downtown for an early morning swim. Only to find out it had been CANCELLED! Too many waves crashing in causing a Swim Advisory Warning until 10:00am. At least the sunrise was still beautiful… and there were still plenty other things to do for me and the thousands of other people now on dry land!!!

Overnight, the temperatures dropped over twenty degrees, the clouds moved in & the wind came with it!!! It was a WONDERFUL TAILWIND… for the first half riding south towards the City. The ride back… a bit more of a challenge.

On a separate note… it doesn’t look so good for Friday Morning Swim Club. As I pedaled past Montrose Harbor this morning on my way home, there were several police cars at the harbor with their blue lights flashing. This comes a week after there was an article in the Chicago SunTimes expressing safety concerns & park district restrictions. Hopefully things will get all worked out & the splashin’ Friday fun will continue!

Click here to read the Chicago SunTimes article.

You know it’s gonna be another hot day when it doesn’t cool down at all overnight! This morning was still just as hot & humid as it was last night… quite the sweaty ride this morning!!! But if you look closely, the huge dragonflies are loving it along the lakefront… hopefully taking out & eating some of those nasty black sand flies!!!

Sparkly glittery clouds flying low along the horizon.
Not a sunrise spectacle… but pretty impressive nonetheless.

Early morning beauty along the lakefront yet again…
it never ceases to amaze me how beautiful these morning rides can be!!!

Good clouds. Good wind. Good drama. Not quite sure if the the sun would be able to work its way through the cloud-cover or not?! But in the end, it finally peeked through the clouds giving us some beautifully golden sunrise moments.