***stardust

So, went on madlong bikeride this evening.. it was really nice. Went into town, planning on stopping in at a few antique stores, but they'd already closed by the time I got there, so I went into the old cemetary again (Pioneer Cemetary is the name of it, I discovered), walked around and ate a sandwich I'd brought for lunch/dinner/something, took a few more photos.. tried - and failed - to chase down this little chipmunk scampering around the misplaced gravestones piled up near the back corner..guess he's camera-shy like me. *g* From there, took kind of a roundabout way back past campus, rode out behind D&F Plaza..and sadly, that pile of old shopping carts I'd wanted to get a shot of was gone. *pouts* *giggles* But there was this awesomely terrible bright aqua wall with a rusted old door in the middle of it, and the colours and texture of the door kicked ass. *g* So I stopped to take pics.. and there was an obnoxious crow, but he looked cool perched atop the electrical pole against the sky so there's a shot of him as well. *giggles* But I was standing there trying to get a good angle on the door and *not* get my shadow in the shot and like two random men popped out of a back door to the building and were watching me and it was like, ehm, hi? and the one guy was like, you taking those for insurance reasons? and I'm like, nah, art student. (Best excuse/explanation/getting out of looking like a moron *ever* for aaaanything random like taking pics of a door. *giggles*) Took a few more shots, had to change my film, random guy talked a little more, I was like whatever... oddly enough, it didn't even really bug me too much. Headed out from there, rode around back to Temple and followed that alllll the way out to the end of it. Stopped between two sets of railroad tracks some way back, and walked along them a bit, taking pictures.. cos I've never really walked around on tracks before, they're wider and easier to balance on than I'd thought, actually.. *g* Rode all the way to the end of Temple, which leads to Route 5, which runs kindamostly around Lake Erie. Followed that a ways, stopped on a bridge that went over where Canadaway Creek runs into the lake, cos it was really pretty.. took some pics, and an elderly couple walked past me.. I asked them if there was a road that ran down to the lake, they told me there was one not far ahead.. went down that way, and was greeted by THREE 'no trespassing' warnings. >_< So, rooode and rode past a golf course past a waste management plant and whatever else... fiiinally found a road that turned to the right, towards the lake, took it, was delighted to find access to the beach (such as it was..about ten feet between seaweed-filled water and concrete walls that braced the land behind that houses sat atop) without evil signs. *g* Parked my bike, walked down...
...and it literally took my breath away. The sun was getting low over the water, the light was so golden and the water so perfectly blue... it was amazing. The colours everywhere and the light and--- ghee. So I took looots of pics, then sat down and ate a little and wrote a bit while waiting for the sun to drop a little farther, cos I knew the sunset'd be incredible. It *reeked* down on the beach, whether from the seaweed or the probable outpouring from the waste management plant not far or the (three, that I saw) dead fish laying about, I dunno, but.. *laughs* I can deal with bad smells well enough, esp. for something that gorgeous. And the lake'd been my goal all day, so... *g* Before long, the sun sank a few more degrees, and...... I've never seen such a perfect sunset, I don't think. I mean, they're *always* gorgeous and amazing, but this..... I had a clear view all the way across the lake, the light reflecting on the ripples and slight waves of the perfect cerulean water, the sky and its reflection in the water a perfect vivid rainbow..... not like, a faded rainbow like the sky usually is, the colours were so *rich*, like I've never seen......
So, yeah, we're getting this film developed asap.
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Couldn't wait for the sun to drop all the way onto the horizon, cos I wanted to get back before dark fell, and as it was 7.30 already (I'd left from WilliC somewhere probably about 5, a little before), I figured I'd best get going. Rode back, took Willow down to Temple and got back, mm, a bit after 8, I think.
So awesome, awesome day, and holy feck I started this entry like SIX HOURS AGO! *laughs* ..not that it took me that log to write, but Megs was on and it's a slash-night, so I've been a weeeee bit preoccupied, what with myself and megs and all our babyU2s *and* Mackie having a big get-together in the closet. *g* (And in-bubble me being asleep at this point, guuuuhhed into oblivion by Megs' LilLar whom I'm still all curled around. *giggles* gheeeee....)

*Ananda Daydream * 11:32 PM * *

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