Sunday is our tandem cycling day. We generally get together with other friends who also have tandem bicycles to go for a ride and then stop for brunch along the way somewhere. Today, we joined two other couples for a nice ride through the south end of Ottawa before stopping at the Mayflower on Elgin St for breakfast. The weather was much cooler today than it has been, only about 13C when we started off at 8:30 am. Storm clouds were all around us too. We got a little wet, but nothing of any consequence. We cycled back out to Orleans via the eastern parkway and were back home by 12:30 pm.
This afternoon we grabbed the camera and tripod and headed off to the airport to see if we couldn't get some good shots of aircraft taking off and landing. We saw a few commercial jets come and go before being fortunate enough to get some nice shots of a Canadian Armed Forces C-130 Hercules getting set to take off.
It rained on and off most of the afternoon but this little guy didn't seem to mind. Chris spotted him sitting in his burrow at the base of the airport perimeter fence. He was a little timid at first, but warmed up to me and the camera after a few minutes.
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