Sunday, I had time for a short ride before dinner, on a sunny, breezy, cool afternoon. The prospect of dealing with an actual Easter Parade on the Minuteman was even more daunting than dealing with the figurative one that the good Spring weather seemed likely to occasion, so I took the Trucker DeLuxe for a quick spin around the Mystic Lakes, instead.
Seen while riding across the Mystic River from East Arlington to West Medford on the River Street bridge: Don't fall in, kids!
Friendly games in progress at Dugger Park, West Medford.
Where the Lower Mystic Lake narrows, becomes the Mystic River, and heads for Boston Harbor.
Riding up the Mystic Valley Parkway, along the Lower Mystic Lake.
A sunny day on the dam.
Mystic Valley Watershed: wherever you go, there you are.
Continuing up the Mystic Valley Parkway, along the Upper Mystic Lake.
Crossing the Aberjona River, prior to looping around the North end of the Mystic Lakes on Bacon Street and Everett Avenue, and continuing back home on Cambridge Street, Mystic Street, and the Arlington segment of the Mystic Valley Parkway.
Meanwhile, at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and the Collective Unconscious...
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