SHOW us YOUR PIX here .... Odd, WeiRd ,UnUSuAl or EyE CaTchIng things from your rides

[steve mercier]

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We are getting off topic, but my first car was a 1950 Plymouth Custom Deluxe. I paid $85 for it in 1963 when I was 16 years old (and had to borrow money from my older brother to pay for it!). At that time I was working part time at a Safeway store earning $1.00 per hour. Gas was selling for about $0.25 per gallon.

Right now I can picture the teenage you with a green smock , a bowtie and a crewcut, fetching carts in the parking lot.

 

[Alaskan]

My son Asher and I encountered this bovine with enormous horns on our ride today. I've never seen anything like it. He can hardly hold his head up.

 

[Marci jo]

My son Asher and I encountered this bovine with enormous horns on our ride today. I've never seen anything like it. He can hardly hold his head up.

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Wow, makes those Texas longhorns look like stubs.

 

[steve mercier]

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Wow, makes those Texas longhorns look like stubs.

Yeah that seems impossible!

 

[PaD]

My son Asher and I encountered this bovine with enormous horns on our ride today. I've never seen anything like it. He can hardly hold his head up.

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That looks like more than necessary to attract females or scare off the other males. Is it a result of breeding or can he blame our creator for overdoing it?
I prefer educational bulls like these

 

[Alaskan]

Ankole - Watusi
Cattle of Kings
The Ankole-Watusi, also known as Ankole Longhorn, is a landrace breed of cattle originally native to Africa. Its large distinctive horns that can reach up to 8 ft (2.4 m) from tip to tip are used for defence and cooling by honeycombs of blood vessels. Ankole-Watusis weigh from 900 to 1,600 pounds (410 to 730 kg).

Living in the savannas and open grasslands, their diet consists of grass and leaves. The variety is sometimes known as Ankole or Watusi and is a type of Sanga cattle.

https://cattleinternationalseries.weebly.com/ankole---watusi.html

 

[Marci jo]

Weird. Almost looks photoshopped.

 

[steve mercier]

Bard on the Beach is an annual collection of Shakespeare plays in a bigtop in Kits Point. "Out out damn spot...."

 

[AlanDB]

I love this thread! Keep the pictures coming!

 

[steve mercier]

This fellow on the park bench is shaping stone and jade creatures. He has been doing it for twenty years. I like his primitive ,prehistoric style.

 

[steve mercier]

 

[steve mercier]

These pipes are for the controversial Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion allowing more Alberta oil to reach tidewater, increasing the current tanker traffic by 700 percent . If I hunched forward I could ride my bike through them. Years ago I thought the world was going to run out of oil by now , but it looks like I was wrong again.

 

[steve mercier]

 

[steve mercier]

runner up COD

 

[steve mercier]

COD is the venerable Miata but in this rare orange colour. I want it.

 

[steve mercier]

I saw An elderly man riding a tandem bike by himself today. At first it seemed comical until it sank in that it might be a very sad thing. I could not bring myself to take the pic.

 

[steve mercier]

I found a trail with a motherlode of blackberries , loaded up my saddlebags with 15 lbs and left the rest for the black bears . YUM!

 

[JRA]

From yesterday’s neighborhood exploration.

 

[Marci jo]

I found a trail with a motherlode of blackberries , loaded up my saddlebags with 15 lbs and left the rest for the black bears . YUM!View attachment 36030

OMG, those berries are huge. Glad you beat the birds to them.

 

[Marci jo]

Stopped by a farmers market and they had their very own t-rex, who tried to eat my bike. And his little velociraptor buddy.