A Lovely Summer Evening

First Friday Art Walk, rode my $20 garage sale cruiser downtown Bend, my first ride on my new old bike which I think is a very nice "ride", warm and lovely sunny evening, wandering in and out of different galleries with friends, drinking a glass or two of wine, looking at and talking about our art work, others' art work, skiing, paddling, biking. Ah Bend. It is also the weekend of a classic car - what do you call it when people drive their classic cars somewhere and park them? So there were some very cool cars driving through downtown. There was wonderful live music: an amazing flamenco band called Sola Via with 3 drummers, two guitarists, a bass player, and a keyboard player, making wonderful big saucy music as the sun backlit the river, the willows, the ponderosa pines, the musicians, and flocks of canada geese flying to the lovely music. As I stood there, I silently said Thank You to whomever it was I was saying Thank You to. Biked home across the foot bridge over the river, lovely colors reflected in the water, people leaning over the railing watching the water while listening to the music, and up the hill, a neighbor passing in her car says "Hi Karen" as she drives by. I'll go to sleep with that one riff running through my head.