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Another phew.
How would that work?
It knows full well who fills it up, really liking this photo series of yours, hope there's more to come :)
I have some feral pigeons looking for me through my balcony door. I used to feed a few select ones some sunflower hearts, then i went on a longer vacation and thought afterwards i'll stop doing this. They were also all over the crumbles that the small birds left around the feeders on my balcony.
Now two and a half months later i come back home and i have this breeding pigeon couple on my balcony. I have not set up my feeders again, so i don't attract any other birds until their kids go flying. But the pigeons i fed before came back when they saw me, looking at me all hungry. I am not made for letting them just look at me and not give them anything, makes me feel bad and sad. They came by every day now, hope they stop coming soon.
I now try to only feed the breeding couple a bit, i know their time table for the shifts, so i try to put out some seeds at those times but i already accidently fed another pigeon which looks just like the mother. Such a cute pigeon. She was just sitting with me on the balcony, relaxing at sunset. Man. The pigeons get to me emotionally.
What have you replaced it with? I still have my 4a and kind of dread the day i will have to replace it.
Love how in spain regular people may lay down for a siesta nap in public spaces. They have a really cool outdoor public space culture.
You really dislike this, huh.
So.. on the topic of gardening then, this might be my favorite pot on the balcony:
I don't do anything with it, just from time to time in summer i will give it some water. It is pretty cool to see how what is growing there is changing over the years and seasons. This was the first year i had so much grass in there. It is also the pot that the birds seem most interested in. Sometimes something is flowering, sometimes it's a whole lot of moss.
Now that i have found this, i kinda want to go back and collect the cols, haha.
Seems like quite some people snap a pic of themselves there. Not sure if it's the best way to spend money on cycling infrastructure, but i think it's a fun little project, i like it.
SPOILER
Maybe i was exaggerating when i said i fully understand it. There is this Cols Connectes thing from the department alpes maritimes where climbing a col is being gamified, to collect the cols and take the times, upload photos. And this infra is part of it, taking a photo. Maybe there is are also stations like this at the bottom and top, for the timing, but i did not see them if they were there. But i also rode some of the other cols and did not notice anything like it either, but apparently it's there.
Just today i clicked on the deeplink to the cameras. https://www.cols-connectes06.fr/consultez-les-photos.htm I don't know ho to reach this from their website.
I knew this infra was somehow part of "cols connetces", but did not really understand what it did, i had asked it before in the french cycling subreddit.
Thought it was also about the idea of growing your own food on the balcony.
Other than the chicken i have mostly herbs and wildflowers on my balcony, but really only for the nice smell and insects.
Wait a second. There might be something further down and up the hill that i have not fully understood yet, so this could also be a timing machine, i am not sure. It's not the function that i'm looking for though.
No timing, but this is getting close. There is nothing further down this climb, but this infra apparently also exists on a few other climbs in the area.
I have posted the solution already, but you can keep playing.
No. Why is there an internet connection? What else is there?
I posted the solution but you can keep playing if you want.
Weird Infra Quiz
This is a photo from two years ago, i stood there for a good minute wondering how the hell and why this weird cycle path was there. It is in southern France, on the climb to Col d'Ecre, bit north of Nice.
Take a guess, i finally fully understand.
Some pics from France
So after the Pyrenees i kept cris crossing around France, bit of Cevennes, Provence, Verdon, Haute Alpes, back to Provence, Vercors, Chartreuse, Jura then to Freibug to take a train home. Title picture is taken on the Montagne de Lure, Mont Ventoux' little brother close to Sisteron.
! > Gorge du Tarn in the Cevennes. I was getting sick here again
! > Riding out of Gorges du Verdon to Castellane
! > On the descend of the Col de la Sinne, looking onto the village Ilonse
! > This is not some gravel track but the still closed Col d'Allos on my way back south after riding Bonette. Nobody around but two roadies.
! > Riding the prealpes, from Digne-les-Bains to Sisteron via St Geniez, very nice.
! > Vercors mountains look awesome, picture taken close to Die
! > Riding out of Vercors down to Grenoble
! > After Grenoble i rode through Chartreuse mountain range then down to the Lac du Bourget towards Jura
! > Second to last day, in french Jura, after that i rode to Freiburg to take a train home
Route of France section Part 1, Perpignan - Barême and Part 2, Barême - Freiburg
Feral Pigeons breeding on my balcony
They are really well hidden and silent, didn't even realize for two days after i came back from my holidays. I already knew this pigeon couple from before my holidays (was gone for two months), they are like the regulars in my garden.
This is the father sitting on the eggs. BTW I had made this mess deliberately to keep pigeons from trying to breed there, it seemed to work while i was at home i guess. Hope when the little ones hatch they won't fall into any gaps there.
I tried to call the local bird help, if maybe they would swap the eggs for fake ones, but i could not reach anybody, they have too much to do this time of the year and i reckon pigeons breeding on a balcony ain't no emergency either.
Custom tag for community?
Is it maybe planned to be able to set a custom tag for a community instead of one pulled from the url? I reckon there are many communities where this would make more sense.
Like the community i am moderating is c/bicycle_touring, but i think #biketouring and #bikepacking are the hashtags that are being used on mastodon for this stuff.
Looking over to Switzerland from France
In the Jura. Last wild camp of the trip, need to take a shower before i get on the train :)
Making a joke reality
When i went onto my first solo cycle trip some years ago (from germany to marseille, france), my coworkers joked that i should ride mont ventoux. I had no idea what mont ventoux was, but read it up. On that trip i happened to cycle around this mythical mountain, looked awesome, but i never seriously considered going up ever.
On two more cycle trips i cycled around mont ventoux on different routes, and it always looked just so cool from afar. This trip i wanted to hit mont ventoux, but i got sick basically on the western foot of it. I rode in recovery mode east past it, through the valley, looked awesome again. I then continued towards the high alps but eventually decided to turn around because of the weather forecast, back south into the prealps of provence.
And today i actually got to ride it. I rode it from Sault, because that's where i was coming from, which i guess is not what the OG's do or consider "riding mont ventoux", but cycle tourers are aloud to do that, haha.
Lots of roadies going up there. And it lived up to its name, it was real windy. In the morning at the bottom of the climb one roadie told me that it might be too dangerous to ride to the summit today but thankfully the wind chilled out a bit as i was going up, and also the cloud that had covered the top went away.
Picture is bit below the top on the descend to Malaucene. That glider plane was going nuts, that stuff looks absolutely crazy.
Casual Chat Quarterly 03/24
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Getting High on Cycle Trip
Won't be getting any higher, at least not on this trip. On the Cime de la Bonette.
Riding mountains gives me a crazy high, the combination of exercise and the views that come up. There are places where you can get similar views "for free", without the work, but for me the feeling does not really compare.
Love seeing these signs #2
The one where it says "terre de cyclistes". Pretty cool slogan, metropole nice cote d'azur.
Walking with Donkeys
Met this guy walking across France in the cevennes, he started walking with his two donkeys at his home in Colmar, Alsace and was on his way to visit his kids at their farm at the foot of the Pyrenees. He was following the GR7 hiking trail.
ultralightcycling blog
Tips for reducing weight and volume on a cycling journey
This is a bit of an older link, don't think he updated in a while. I still have a look at it every once in a while.
Ultralight with little money, taken to the extreme (bubble wrap sleeping pad anyone?). I think he has some really good ideas and interesting thoughts, also like his humor.
what
You guys must be thinking i am full of shit, but another cat just walked into my tent. This time at "camping solau" in Espot, Spain.
She stayed for about 15 minutes and is gone now.
I know already that this cat belongs to the campsite, she hopped on my lap yesterday while i was sitting in front of the reception. Don't know her name yet, but i will ask when i get out.
*edit: Cat's called Cookie
A cat entered my tent
Just as i had set up my tent she came in, was raining outside. We've been hanging out here for half an hour already. I hope she won't spike my sleeping pad. Necklace says her name is Kyra. Love it 🥹