Babe the Blue Ox

After many, many months of riding fatbikes Babe the Blue Ox left the garage today. I intentionally quit riding skinny tire bikes sometime last fall to prepare my body for my Desert Ramble tour. When the temps hit near 50 today and the blue sky came out, I knew it was time. Oh sweet Lord […]

Minnesota’s North Shore

It’s Friday and I am stoked it is here. It’s hard to believe how fast these past two weeks have been. Two weeks ago I headed up to MN’s North Shore for a family get away before my work binge called Frostbike. It was a great time in possibly my favorite part of the country. […]

Frostbike Bite

Seriously I am not dead. Just busy. Busy and good. Busy and blessed. It’s been a long two weeks with a family trip to MN’s North Shore and Frostbike (an industry event we put on each year) week. It’s still going too, but will end for me this coming Friday. Yeah! Frostbike took a bite […]

A much needed day in the woods

It’s been quiet around here. I know it. I was sick last week and I had two days where I was in bed until about 3:00 in the afternoon. Ugh. Didn’t do much really. Slept. Thought about a lot of things. Slept some more. I did get a post up on my Fuji X 365 […]

One More Year

It’s been a year since I re opened, or re activated, this site. Before I get to thoughts and what’s to come, I renewed my domain name for yet another year so it looks like I am going to stick it out. I had almost 40,000 visitors last year. That’s not that many as I […]

OC/OL/OY Update

I’ve been suspiciously quiet since my last post about one camera, one lens for one year post, or OC/OL/OY for short. The honest answer is that I have been very, very busy and this challenge has me all messed up. That said, I am excited by it and it really is helping me de-clutter my […]

Getting Out

I have few words today. Words are all jumbled around in my head. I’ve been riding and shooting just a little tiny bit. Even those rides and moments of shooting images have helped me. I think I am just sensing a gang buster of a 2015 and it starts immediately again on Monday. I don’t […]

2014 Best Images from my Tumblr Photo Blog

In years past I went through and carefully selected my favorite bike, family, landscape and travel photos. This time I am doing it a bit differently. I am using popular vote from my http://www.imaginegnat.tumblr.com site. My tumblr site features many images that I have posted here as well as some other material and content that […]

Weird Winter Day

I woke up this AM and walked the dog. It was wet. It was foggy. It was 50+ degrees in December. That is unheard of here in MN. I had planned a ride after church and after finishing some Christmas shopping up. I was really excited to get out today. At Church the message was […]

Global Fatbike Day is Everyday!

Saturday was Global Fatbike day and I was pretty stoked to have the day planned riding with my son and my friend John. Riding on the weekends is a treat for me that I often don’t get to enjoy. To make this opportunity even better, I brought a bike home from work for my son […]

MN River Crawling

I finally have come out of my desert rambling dream and accepted that I am in Minnesota and I need to both prepare and embrace the next several months of winter. As a break in, my buddy John and I got out to ride over our Thanksgiving holiday weekend. As we headed out I found […]

2014 Minnesota State CX Pics

I only managed to get out to the senior mens/u23 race today but it was worth it. Temps were in the mid 50’s with overcast skies. The snow had mostly melted. The course was a black, muddy track. It was like a giant shadowbox everywhere! I could not have asked for better cross weather. I […]

Recovery And a Dog

A week has gone by here with no blog posts. Lots going on. I am mostly catching up at work and at home after being gone too long. I have honestly also been a little bit un inspired as I came home from an incredible trip to winter and I have been secretly protesting by […]

Desert Ramble – Coffee Outside Extended

Ok…Now I am just having some fun with pics. Many of you know I love coffee. Turns out others do too and thanks to Glenn, we had a grinder and several of us carried fresh beans. It was a ramble so why not have a little luxury. Anyway, here are a few of my favorite […]

Desert Ramble – The Route & Favorite Pics

Before I get started on today, I just want to say thanks to everyone that checked out my postcard and portrait project I posted on Monday. Based on stats, it is the most popular thing I have ever done on my blog. Ever! Wow. Thank you all so much for taking the time to view […]