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More random stuff in the kitchen. Yeah, that's definitely not Guinness. It's Mountain Dew.

Corks and hot chocolate. I guess this is what happens when I run out of interesting recent photos: I start taking pics of random things around the house.

On the shelf in our kitchen: A little trike planter (thanks Grandma!) and a bunch of squash (thanks Good Food Box!).

I rode my bike more than 60km today. 20km to work in Mississauga. 30km to the CNIB on Bayview, north of Eglinton. Then another 12km home. Not too shabby for a workday.

Of course, I was famished when I got home. The Indian buffet from lunch had expired. Jen had some pasta ready for me when I got home. Three plates later, here's the result.

Looking forward to lots more riding (and eating!) with all this nice weather we're getting.

Palanga, Lithuania is a small resort town on the Baltic coast. We spent our final days in Lithuania here.

A door inside of a courtyard in the old town of Klaipėda, Lithuania.

My bikey and my wifey on the Chedoke Rail Trail in Hamilton.

On Saturday, Jen and I rode out to Mississauga for an appointment, then down to Port Credit to catch a trail to Aldershot (Burlington). From there, we rode into Hamilton to visit my parents. My parents live up on The Mountain, so the last little bit of riding to their place is usually the toughest as we have to climb a few hundred feet up out of downtown Hamilton along the access roads (typically, the Jolly Cut).

But when we have some extra time and want to go for a nicer ride, we take one of the rail trails that start from the near the centre of the city and fan out up to the east or west end up The Mountain. This time we took the Chedoke Rail Trail from the top of Dundurn St., which leads to Scenic Drive on the West Mountain near the start of Ancaster. Always a lovely ride. Not steep at all, so it hardly feels like we're riding uphill. Plus, there are many excellent views of the West End and Dundas Valley, and a nice shady forest (in the summer, anyway).

I really do love riding my bike in The Hammer, and always look forward to it.

Jen and Coffee. We stopped at Alternative Grounds while out for a walk on Roncesvalles.

Klaipėda, Lithuania. Almost the opposite view of yesterday's photo, but this time looking north from the breakwater up the beach along the Baltic Sea.

Yes, I really really really wanted to climb it.

The last few days of our trip to Lithuania were spent in various places along the Baltic coast, mainly around Klaipėda.

Looking back towards the port of Klaipėda, this photo was taken from one of the breakwaters where the shipping channel from the Kuršių Marios (Curonian Lagoon) enters the Baltic Sea.