:::: bows towards the good folks from Showers Pass ::::

Warm and thunderstorms this morning but no complaints here. I even took the long way in to get some extra miles. I did almost get taken out by a duck that was frightened or disoriented by a really loud thunder clap as he was coming in for a landing on the park lake that I skirt. I saw him coming and had just enough time to...well...duck. He tried to veer around me as he passed a couple of inches above my helment. He was quacking all the way through his resulting clumsy landing. I think that I have officially now been cussed out in duck.