Pictures Wednesday

I'm pretty much wordless lately anyway, so far as this blog is concerned, so why force myself to go quiet today? It's a picture day and after sifting through dozens of pictures taken in the past couple weeks, I decided these could come out today.

The San Francisco Bay Bridge opened for business in 1936 -- my mother still remembers the years just prior, when her mom would drive out on the Berkeley Pier to catch a ferryboat. A section was damaged in the 1989 earthquake. They finally opened a replacement span earlier this year, and it's a lovely thing, never mind cost overruns and shoddy construction. The original cantilever bridge is currently under deconstruction and will eventually be all gone. I hear the new bridge has a fenced bicycle lane such that one can pedal from Oakland to Treasure Island. This would provide excellent views, and someday I want to take that ride with my long lens camera, but alas. I'm real good at over-committing and not taking time out for myself. This is not new.

One commitment is to the trike. I've considered making a trike-only blog, but keeping it would distract me from the work it describes. Basically I'm taking the electric tricycle I got in 2012 (Sunya's sciatica prevented walking, bicycling, and scootering and I wanted her mobile for her first Burn) and improving the design. Here's what it looked like a couple weeks ago and then a few days ago.

There's still some work to do before we leave for the desert.