Dogs and bikes

Terrier in a basket

Dogs and bikes

The usual, plus a butterfly on a horse chestnut in bloom

Great day for a ride with a basket-mounted dog. Two bicyclists rode past each with dog in basket – I shot, but the camera was asleep, and in the moment’s lag, they’d passed, caught in blur…about the third or fourth photo down the page. I didn’t chase them down.

I stopped to zoom in on a butterfly drinking the nectar of a flowering horse chestnut tree (warning, their nuts are not edible), when the last photo rode by.

Dogs and bikes

Dog portage and Central Park randomness last Sunday

Two examples of dog portage:

 

Rounding up feral dogs on the green. You can see the victims of their attacks prone in the background, an underreported problem that the Central Park Security Committee wants to keep from you. Our photographer took this shot at great personal risk.

Unaware – perhaps in defiance – of the danger lurking, helmeted man and child wait at the 77th Street park entrance on a clever dual-wheeled self-powered transport device. We later learned that they survived their voyage without incident, the threat perhaps overblown by hyperbolic reporting.

The rest is random.

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The one-time pigeon exception

They’ve accumulated over the years like bird droppings…

One bike, just to stay on theme.

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“They rode like men invested with a purpose…”

I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like

~ Queen, Bicycle Race

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Today’s dogs in bike baskets, New York City

 

Dogs and bikes

It’s probably a dog…

It’s probably a dog, possibly a reasonable cat. A little blurry, and lost in a shadow. I really can’t work out this business of focusing.

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Dog in a Basket, NY, NY

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More dogs, more baskets

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2 dogs, 1 basket

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