On a day when the temperature reached well into the 90s we found the bike trail in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park a cool and shady place to ride. There is a place near Lock 25 where you travel through a small tunnel. The old canal runs along just to the right of the trail.
John Kennedy was right - nothing compares to a bike ride. the next best thing for me is painting the scene:
I painted this in acrylics, 8 x 10". Price on request.
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things. ~William Golding
It was a fantastic day in the National Park. I forgot that there was a marathon being run today and the MD Garage was closed for art - it was used as a first aid station. The art show will be re-hung this week for the final few weeks of the season. The section of the towpath that we intended to ride was also closed so we changed our route, making sure we could still finish up at Fishers!
