I’m going to start with the scoff-laws: two guys in red and blue four wheel vehicle driving through the crowd at the Doris Thompson Park HUB for Cyclovia. What the heck?!? And they weren’t just creeping along slowly.
Didn’t anyone tell them that the event is a non-motorized fun day cycling and walking along the Cyclovia course from downtown to Amphi?! The guy in the backseat, waving and U of A “A”, could use some time on a bike.
In my opinion they should get a traffic citation!
Two groups in a “fringe festival”
Okay…now on to the “fringe” booths at Cyclovia. There were two of them by the Park but not in the official HUB area and both were attracting a lot of positive attention. I especially like the Desert Bluegrass Association band playing for all the riders zipping by. They’re good! Across the street and just a few yards away was a display of a bubble machine to the delight of the children who stopped and played. Some neighborhood kids, too.
Pink seemed to be the color of the day
Now onto the fact that there seemed to be a lot of things colored pink at this HUB. Canopies, women’s clothing, helmets, food trucks. So let’s start with the image at the top of this post: pink canopy, pink tablecloth, pink sign frame, pink bike at the booth and a young person in pink shoes over on the right. And in the middle, a happy man on a sit-down tricycle. And there were more…
Women in pink and “pink-ish”
On the left the Cyclovia volunteer census taker speaks with a woman in a pink-ish color t-shirt at the event. In the center, wow! Two ladies making fashion statements that would get them onto the pages of the New York Times, Streetwear Fashions. And on the right, a woman living out her fantasy in a pink tutu and crown. All of it fun!
Even more pink things: a food truck with the name “Ensenada Street Food” was pink with a sorta Frida Kahlo look-alike in a pink shirt painted on the side. I should have checked their menu. I have had some amazing seafood dinners in Ensenada. And then there was the woman with odd sunglasses who gave her helmet the Frida-Flowers treatment.
No way to forget the DJs, Selector Ras Kalahari, good and loud and one wearing pink! It wasn’t until I got home that I looked at their card and wondered: “Where did that name come from?” Rastafarians? Jamaicans? Something else? And, on the right, a girl with a decorated bike. Standing nearby is a pink-helmeted young rider.
Sure as the sun rises in the East, there will be another Cyclovia here in Tucson in a few months. I hope the next one happens on a day that is less windy with fewer allergens floating around in the air.
New puzzle site with some Tucson imagery
One last thing: I’ve semi-launched a new jigsaw puzzle website. An ad is below. The puzzles are very different than most of the cartoony, too-cute images found in the majority of jigsaw puzzles. I’ve included some pirates. Some gunslingers. Some images of the beautiful southwest. I’ll be adding more images of the custom-made puzzles on the first of May. (The site updates and changes monthly.) Take a look at it.
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