Summer 2025 Photo Thread: Rivers: The (small) Muddy

[Patrick Moore]

Almost but not quite completely dry. 12:30 pm MDST on Sunday on the way home from church. 97*F on its way to 99*, 12%, and the usual “open oven door” sun. 2016 Matthews dirt road road bike with pavement slicks. Nice ride nonetheless.

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Patrick Moore

Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum

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[Patrick Moore]

I just texted the photo to my daughter who remarked that the mud “is so orange.” Me, I’m somewhat color blind, so that while I can clearly see the orange of the new bar tape, I just see dull brown/taupe/meh for the mud. Is it really orange? Then the juxtaposition of orange mud with the “orange and black and silver on forest green” color scheme of the bike, which is deliberate, was by accident.

[John Rinker]

I love this sub-thread of the Summer 2025 Photos! As I live on the most beautiful river in the world (OK, one of...), my bicycles and I spend a lot of time ambling along the 50km river in search of new and familiar swimming holes. This one's from today: 

There are colors in this water that I could swear match the Russian blue-green of Atlantis. 

Cheers, John

[John Rinker]

Same river, different ride. And, the bike still comes along.

Cheers, John

[Steve]

I'll add one to the thread;  It's French and it's Broad and it's on its way to New Orleans. 

Steve in AVL

[Nick Shoemaker]

....and here it is again, a thousand or more feet lower just before joining the Holston at the headwaters of the Tennessee! (on to you, Chattanooga....)

[Kesler Roberts]

Just did a 4 day credit card tour from here in Mass to NY via Long Island to break in my new Homer.  Here are some of the waterbodies I encountered....

Blackstone River @ Worcester

Thames R. @ New London

Long Island Sound

Hudson @ Tappan Z

[John Rinker]

Another day on the river as summer wanes. Took the Atlantis and the Alpacka raft to look for new swimming holes. Pedal up, paddle down.

Cheers, John

[Patrick Moore]

So much water and greenery!!! I enjoy the riverine photos, and and I regret that our “great river” is presently nothing but a mud flat for ~10 miles through ABQ (tho’ an unexpectedly extended rainfall last week did break some channels through the mud, tho’ by today these had largely dried up). My heart is bitter when I see what others have and we don’t; and then I reflect that we have sapphire mile-high skies and divine cumulo-form clouds, and that, even with the sweltering humidity of a frustrated monsoon season, it was about 39% when I left about about 12:30 pm, at a scorching ~82*F.

Seriously, I do enjoy the photos.