CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge

[emptysea]

So this is interesting. That big pine tree I mentioned? Looked a little too trimmed. They usually let it grow out quite a bit to hold the lights and decorations. Plus, I thought it was weird that they hadn’t done any decorating a day before the tree lighting ceremony.
Finally, they’ve never put a tree in the central plaza like that - the decorated tree my bike is pictured with.

I went to the lighting ceremony yesterday, and that new tree is the city’s new “official” Christmas tree. They’re not using the big pine anymore. So, that picture should qualify ?

The area under the big pine was still blocked off for setting up grandstands for a big choir that sings during the ceremony, and a big podium with a giant switch that the mayor uses to ceremonially turn on the lights.

They still did the choir and lighting, but it was weird seeing it light up a tree on the other side of the plaza, and not the big pine directly over the actual ceremony.

Seems like a smallish tree to be a city’s official Christmas tree, but the city is broke. They have cancelled most ceremonies and functions but ya can’t cancel Christmas!

The new tree is in a precarious place, however. There have been a recent rash of drivers crashing through the town’s central plaza, and someone barreling north on Glassell Street can probably take out the tree. 

If you have a minute Google “Orange CA Plaza Fountain Crash” for some of the most spectacular examples.

I don't think I asked that it be some sort of official Christmas tree, just that it had to have ornaments (if it didn't, it would just be a tree).   As long as that first pic was taken after the challenge was offered, then it counts as the first response and, as of now, the only response.

[Gone in 60]

I don't think I asked that it be some sort of official Christmas tree, just that it had to have ornaments (if it didn't, it would just be a tree).   As long as that first pic was taken after the challenge was offered, then it counts as the first response and, as of now, the only response.

Oh I’m not worried about my submission. Weird that what in my last reply I put the emoji with the sunglasses but it shows as a question mark. 

My plan was to go back some night coming up and take a picture of my bike under the lit up big pine tree. Oh well. I’ll have to go back and get a pic with the tree in the plaza lit up. A bit precarious as the only way to do so is to stop in traffic in the roundabout. 

Good thing the CB has hazard lights!

Who else can get a tree pic?

[pdedse]

Solid rain...rain...and more rain.  Hard to get the motivation to get out there.  I could wheel my bike out and place in front of our neighbor's display and call it good.

I don't think I asked that it be some sort of official Christmas tree, just that it had to have ornaments (if it didn't, it would just be a tree).   As long as that first pic was taken after the challenge was offered, then it counts as the first response and, as of now, the only response.

[emptysea]

Solid rain...rain...and more rain.  Hard to get the motivation to get out there.  I could wheel my bike out and place in front of our neighbor's display and call it good.

I don't think I asked that it be some sort of official Christmas tree, just that it had to have ornaments (if it didn't, it would just be a tree).   As long as that first pic was taken after the challenge was offered, then it counts as the first response and, as of now, the only response.

It takes motivation to ride in the rain.   It takes mental deficiency to ride in the snow.  I'm hoping that the streets here are clear enough to ride before the end of the month.

[the Ferret]

motivated





and officially mentally deficient, but we knew that lol

[pdedse]

Ferret, you sure you weren't a postman at some point? I'm thinking of the ol' addage:

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night..."

[Gone in 60]

Yeah, Ferret, I admire the determination, but as for me, no thanks.
I'm currently in Indy for a trade show. Thinking of whether or not I'd be riding in this cold if I had the opportunity...

[the Ferret]

LOL it's a matter of having the right gear and not worrying if the bike gets dirty

[emptysea]

To clarify my previous comment. Ferret you were not riding "in the snow" in the pics you provided, though I have no doubt, at some point in your illustrious riding history, you were caught someplace where there was accumulated snow on the road and managed to get your bike and yourself safely home. I did the first part, the getting caught out with snow on the ground, but I did not manage the navigation for the second part. That I was out there at all definitely showed a mental deficiency of which my wife reminds me every time we get snow.

Yes, I know people with specially modified bikes ride in snow and on ice, but it takes a special hardiness, combined with a special bravery, mixed in with a fair amount of stupid to set out in the serious snow on a stock CB1100

[the Ferret]

LOL just messin' with ya Sea. I try real hard not to ride in the snow. It's slippery