If 6 was 9 with Flowers

The If 6 was 9 with Flowers ride report.

I decided to go for a little ride on Easter Sunday. Here is my route, one I ride frequently in the winter and early spring. The idea of this ride was to try out some new motorcycle boots, a thin excuse, see some flowering trees and the soft green color of new leaves on the trees.

I am near Victor Washington when my odometer on my 09 says 50,000 miles.



About this time my mind start humming the song If 6 was 9 is a song by Jimi Hendrix. In this case 50,000 is 62080 and I don't mind, I don't mind. At 12080 miles Yamaha replaced my instrument cluster because the gear indicator failed. I was on Yamaha's dime because I was covered by YES, yes! I don't mind, I don't mind.

Shortly after the flashback in Victor I stop near Union Washington on Hwy 302 and take a few photos of Puget Sound.



Notice the Olympic Mountains in the background - mostly void of snow this year - very odd.



Hwy 302 at the point were these photos were stolen!



Here is the flower part of this ride report, the flowering trees. Very nice. I sure am lucky to live in such as scenic area with great roads to ride on.



Some blue sky - the forecast was for showers today.



A nice road, the Purdy Cutoff road.



Soft green color of new leaves.



More flowers on trees.



Very nice! I had to pull over to take this one and it was worth it.



Onward to Bunker Creek Rd. road to take a shot of these trees.



Then more flowers.



It was a wonderful day to be on the FJR and the boots worked great.

Sweet, thanks

Good looking ride Fontanaman...I rode the mower!

Thanks for the RR and pics.

--G

escapefjrtist said:

Good looking ride Fontanaman...I rode the mower!
Thanks for the RR and pics.

--G

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escapefjrtist said:

Good looking ride Fontanaman...I rode the mower!
Thanks for the RR and pics.

--G

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Hey --G how about a riding mower ride report with a route? I mean with your back 40 you'd need a GPS to find our way out. Fact is free time is precious and you are smart guy - I am surprised you haven't wired a GPS and control systems to your lawn mower so it can follow a route on auto pilot.

I got to ride the tractor / snowblower. We had drifting snow so I ended up with about 18" in my driveway. We may be a month from bare roads if the long term forecast holds true. The bike is in a storage building 40 ft behind my garage and there is a level 4 ft of snow between them.

I enjoyed seeing your pictures, gives me hope that spring may show up sooner or later!

Rick

Nice tune, nice photos, and glad the boots worked out.

I youtubed that song and listened while I read the report - the two went well together!!!

Are those flowering trees of the cherry variety?

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I youtubed that song and listened while I read the report - the two went well together!!!
Are those flowering trees of the cherry variety?

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Thanks! My mind tends to wander to strange places when I ride, very relaxing.

Yes I believe they are flowering cherry trees. There are lots of them around in the Western Washington lowlands right now.

I love springtime... thanks for sharing some of yours with us! And now I have that song stuck in my head... could be worse.

Tyler said:

I love springtime... thanks for sharing some of yours with us! And now I have that song stuck in my head... could be worse.

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I agree for instance I could be riding a DR650 in a monsoon in Mexico.

Nice.

Fontanaman said:

Tyler said:

I love springtime... thanks for sharing some of yours with us! And now I have that song stuck in my head... could be worse.

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I agree for instance I could be riding a DR650 in a monsoon in Mexico.

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Been there, done that... and got the t-shirt, right?

Funny, I rode the mower too this past weekend. Wish I was on the bike.

Very nice!