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wilabar.bsky.social @wilabar.bsky.social · Jan 2
A bit about me: I try to #bike to work more days than most, if schedule allows. For groceries when I can. And for exercise on weekends. I’m two years into it.

This year, I’ve decided to capture photos from my trips. You see so much more on a bike.

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
A bike with a helmet hanging from its handle bars rests against an old turntable. To the right is a book shelf full of books and an old chair that was my father’s.
wilabar.bsky.social
In her old age, she walked you.
Make no mistake about it.
In those walks, she made you appreciate
bird song before sunrise
the breeze & everything it carried
the simple beauty in moving slow before the world is awake.
She brought so much joy & has left it with us
like all angels do.

#DogsOfBlueSky
Jozy loved her nubbins. She could catch a dogobie like a wide receiver. Who dat? A sharpeagle. We had our own vocabulary. In her old age, she walked you. Make no mistake about it. And in those walks, she made you appreciate bird song before sunrise the breeze and everything it carried the simple beauty in moving slow before the world is awake. She brought so much joy and has left it with us like all angels do. Jozy, the best radio dog in the world, smiling on her walk. Jozy, the best radio dog in the world, catching a frisbee like a wide receiver. Jozy, the best radio dog in the world, looking right at the camera with angel eyes.
April 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Rainy afternoon and evenings call for homemade #pasta and #bruschetta!

Made some hand cut #ravioli (paired with a brown butter and sage sauce); bruschetta; a radicchio, arugula, pear and mozzarella salad; and some fettuccini noodles with the leftover pasta dough. Jozy was impressed.

#cooking
Ravioli drying on a pasta net. Fettuccini noodles drying on a rack with ravioli behind them. Brown butter ravioli in a bowl with the salad behind it. Best rescue dog in the world. Jozy. Asking for pasta.
March 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Happy Mardi Gras,y'all!
March 2, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Love what these lights look like at night.

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
About 15 lights cast their glow down on a set of intramural fields off in the distance at night.
February 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Shalom Y’all

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
Two bikes are locked to a post of a sign outside of a Jewish temple. The sign reads “Shalom Y’all.”
January 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Spent the last week for work in #WashingtonDC and couldn’t get time in on a bike there, so I had to hit any stationary bike options I could find to keep up my weekly routines.

(This #bike is found in the Smithsonian’s Object Project, “Everyday things that changed everything”)
A guy, me, in a corduroy sport coat, sneakers, and jeans riding a Penny Farthing bike exhibit, which is an old bike from the 19th century with a big wheel in front and a small wheel in the back.
January 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Treeline in local park that I find myself biking to this year on the weekends. Photo is from yesterday’s trip.

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking #BlackAndWhite
Black and white photo of trees against a cloudy white sky. Several of the trees have lost their leaves or are dying. Several are doing well interesting contrast across the group of them.
January 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Routine grocery stop on the way back from a brief workout. Blueberries, milk, lettuce, bell peppers, pears, bananas, parsley, basil, celery, & steak. 8 miles round trip, 42 degrees (which is cold for us in Louisiana!), and still room in the pannier!

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
Bike propped up against a light pole with a double sided pannier bag on the back.
January 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Jozy, the best #RescueDog in the world, exploring the new pavers we just got put into our backyard this past week. She’s 17 1/2 years old, had a great visit with the vet this past week, and she’s excited about the upgrade!

Nickname for her at the vet’s office: The Legend.

#DogsOfBlueSky
Ground level photo of Jozy, a black and white, and now mostly grey face coming right at the camera, strutting down some pavers in our backyard with the brick wall of our house on the left.
January 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Taking a break from #PhotosWhileBiking to share this amazing #documentary I watched this week, Roots of Fire. It captures so much of the uniqueness of Lafayette & Acadiana, my home. If you love #culture, roots #music, #MardiGras, #Cajun and #Creole lore, this is for you.

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Roots of Fire – Official Trailer – First Run Features
YouTube video by First Run Features
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January 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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It’s flat & close to sea level here. This might explain why when we built a 100 acre #park, we included a big hill, the highest point in Lafayette at 60ft above sea level.

Look closely and you can see a lone #runner using it for exercise tonight.

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
On top of a large hill, a small white speck that is a lone runner takes a breather after sprinting up the hill, with a night/twilight sky filled with clouds behind them.
January 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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I don’t know who Muckrock is…or why he is eating a #FootBall but this piece of #barn or shed art is always cool to see on the way home from work. #WhoDat

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
January 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Love seeing the #LiveOak trees in Moncus Park at night. We are lucky to have so many of these #trees in our city. You can expect to see a lot of these in my photos from my rides this year…

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
Black and white photo of a live oak with strings of white lights hanging across its canopy at night.
January 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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#Statue of #baseball Coach Tony Robichaux, all-time winningest coach at both UL Lafayette and McNeese State University at #sunset today on my ride home from work. Found on UL’s campus at M. L. Tigue Moore Field, Russo Park.

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
Statue of the coach is a silhouette, with and orange streak of sunset in the background. The statue shows the coach standing and talking to a team of ball players seated around him in a semi-circle.
January 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Had to take a small detour in my #commute to the office today and made some new friends. These #cows were in town for the #rodeo this past weekend and were getting ready to head home this morning.

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
Two cows, wondering why I am bothering them at 6am are standing behind a fence in a barn while a few others are laying down.
January 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Found this #egret today hunting in a Coulée in south #Louisiana next to a detention pond built next to several apartment complexes.

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
A small egret hunts, standing in shallow water in a south Louisiana coulee, moss and other ground cover has made the sides of the coulee bright green.
January 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Met these two #DogsOfBlueSky today on one of my weekend #bike trips to my favorite record store to pick up a new record to spin. Meet Desmond & Frida from Lagniappe Records in Downtown Lafayette. Too cute.

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
Two doggos looking up at me from behind the counter. Records on shelves surround them.
January 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Two beautiful trunks of live oak #trees found in the backyard of the Whittington House at UL Lafayette.

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
The trunks of two large live oaks in black and white.
January 11, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Stained glass at one of our neighborhood churches.

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
Two stained glass windows, lit up. The design may depict Adam and Eve on the left perhaps? And the tree of life on the right?
January 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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“To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.” - President Jimmy #Carter

The American Flag at half mast tonight at Moncus Park’s #VeteransMemorial, the day Carter was brought to the capital to lie in state.

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
A series of lit up memorial pillars frame a set of flags of the branches of our military. In the center of the flags is the American flag at half mast. All of the flags are extended and flying in the cold 35 degree weather we have here tonight.
January 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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#StreetArt #mural in downtown Lafayette.

“Allons dancer!”, or “Let’s dance!” is a tribute to how much #Cajun French and #zydeco music is a part of our local #culture here. The background of the mural is the coloring and pattern of the Acadiana flag.

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
A small two story house with the first floor having a brick wall painted with the colors of the Acadiana flag, with dance steps outlined on top. The phrase “allons dancer!” Is written vertically from borrow to top on the right edge of the flag. The second floor of the house is a nice turquoise blue.
January 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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An old #barn that is the last hold out on a lot of land between a four lane thoroughfare and a residential subdivision bordering the south side of Lafayette.

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
Black and white photo of an old barn flanked by two trees. The barn is at a 45 degree angle on the right side of the image. I liked how the black and white edit to this photo brings out the textured look of the structure. I wonder who owns it and if it is still used at all…
January 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Meet Greg. He makes the best #boudin and smoked meats ever.

Johnson’s was founded in Eunice, La in 1937 by Arneastor Johnson. 85+ years on, he & his wife Lori (Arneastor’s granddaughter) craft #Cajun specialties @ Johnson’s Boucanière in Lafayette.

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
Greg is standing in front of three beautiful colored doors. Shaded like copper wood and black smoke. He’s giving two thumbs up, wearing a baseball cap, and is smiling with pride over his creation. Picture of the outside of Johnson’s. There are two small yard signs in front. One reads “Hot Boudin Today” and the other reads “We are open to-day.” Johnson’s is behind the two signs, and outdoor porch under a pergola and then a small house-like building where the restaurant is. My bike parked in the Johnson’s bike rack. Behind it is an old sign for Johnson’s Boucanière, in the same copper/wood tones as the smoker doors in the first photo.
January 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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A symbol of resilience and beauty in some cultures. The whispers made by muhly grass have been thought by Native Americans to carry messages from #nature that guide decisions and journeys. (1/2/25)

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A large muhly grass plant with a cloudy sky in the background. The grass has a purple coppery hue to the end of its long blades.
January 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Photo from the inside of the barns behind the Blackham Coliseum in Lafayette, Louisiana, built in 1949. Never knew this until I looked it up but in the 60s, it hosted acts like The Supremes & James Brown. The coliseum did. Not the barn. (1/1/25)

#Cycling #Biking #Photography #PhotosWhileBiking
Dimly lit interior of a barn with light coming from a man opening in the back left. On the right is a dormant tractor and some barricades for horses lean against the right side of the barn.
January 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM