With the new year came a new weather pattern. A nice thaw melted away all but the slightest remnants of the record-breaking 50” December cumulative snowfall.

I finished my last Night Shift on Sunday morning, the 2nd of January. Unfortunately I needed to stay in as I was preparing for a Colonoscopy on Monday morning. Tuesday morning dawned cloudy but the temperature was still in the low 30’s and with the roads being bare I just had to go for a ride. I headed into the older section of the Town of Greece and then wandered across the cemetery towards the river. It was a great day for a ride, the roads seemed abandoned and with little traffic to concern myself with I could allow myself to become totally immersed in my surroundings.

I saw only one other person on the three mile stretch of MUP along the Genesee River from Lake Avenue all the way down to the Port on Lake Ontario. There she is way over on the left side of the picture as she approaches across the bridge.



Though the human population may not be abundant this time of year, the wildlife remains. I was fortunate to capture a Heron in this image of the small waterfall that I was trying to photograph. You can kinda see the water cascading down the bank through the trees about a third of the way across the picture from the right side, and up near the top of the image in the center of the frame is the heron.



The ice is quite thin thanks to the recent thaw and if you take a good look at the sky you’ll see what I call Rochester’s version of winter sunshine. Normally the sky is just a dull monochromatic gray, but occasionally we get a sky with an almost infinite variety of hues of grays and blues with a smattering of yellow and orange. I don’t posses the photographic skills to capture the majestic visual rapture that stretches out before me on days such as this, but that never stops me from trying.



Just seven miles into my 20 mile ride I noticed this grand old house up on the bank along River Street. Though I’ve lived only a mile away from this house since 1977, I never really saw it until today. I can count at least five different colors of paint there.



At this point of my ride my camera signaled low battery power. I popped my spare batteries into the camera and wouldn’t you know it…they were low too. Well, I continued my ride along the shore of Lake Ontario to Braddock Bay, turned around and rode back and had a great day.


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