RichsCyclingPhotos

 

 Beautiful day here for early November -- Best take advantage of it   Diamond Back sporting a new saddle ready to go   Site of the FMC plant which burned  Single speed Schwinns were used to get around the factory floor   Empty lot where a house burned -- melted siding on the garage Site of the John Deere Foundary Recently torn down   Site of a restaurant which burned Empty receiving dock at Silgan Containers Made containers for the canning industry here and elsewhere Introduction of the 2 piece can relegated them to making 'ends' only   Empty lot where a HVAC/sheet metal building once stood Down Town motel undergoing renovation   Narrow lot where a building was removed due to imminent structural failure   Mini Park where a building burned   Interior collapse will eventually produce another empty space here Site of the Western Auto Store Dwight operated for many years He expressed concern back then of a possible collapse It happenewd long...

Loading up for the drive to Potomac, Illinois   Picking up Dwight who planned the itinerary   Unloaded near Potomac ready to go We all had our masks on in the truck, and maintained social distancing as we rode   Bean Creek Road   Lots of trees, a welcome relief from constant corn and bean fields   Drop off to the right to Middle Fork of the Vermilion River Stream valleys are much deeper here closer to the local base level of the Vermilion River   A Picker's Dream or Nightmare?   Patriotic Hoarder   We were missing seeing corn and beans  :)   Barriers around new trees to prevent deer from eating the bark   On the eastern edge of the Middle Fork Fish and Wildlife Area   Sharing the road   At the end of a track at the Middle Fork River Much like a mountain bike trail and very steep      Dwight and Dave   Vine climbing up the tree trunk Some Cross-Training was required to get back up and out to the townshi...