Prof. Sam Lawlersundogplanets@mastodon.social

Nov 4, 2026, 5:39 PM

Nice bike ride. The very muddy road that's really beautiful was mostly still frozen, so it wasn't so bad to ride on. There's a skim of ice on all the ponds, I saw a couple of V's of snow geese, a flock of partridges, and I'm pretty sure I saw a pileated woodpecker! I also met a neighbour I'd never chatted with before (he drove over when he saw me fiddling with my phone staring into his woods, trying to tell if it was actually a pileated woodpecker). And a bonus combine parade!

View down a muddy, frosty, very straight dirt road, with bare trees on either side and bright blue sky above

A view of a bright blue pond under a bright blue sky, with a little bit of ice on the edges, with a very straight muddy dirt road passing by the pond.

A view along a straight, muddy dirt road, with 3 giant, very shiny yellow combines each towing extremely long headers. The sky above is bright blue.

The same bright shiny yellow combines heading down the road, but now heading away from the camera, toward the very flat horizon along the very straight dirt road under a bright blue sky.