Winter riding

I took a chance today.  I decided that my grocery shopping will be done with my Suzi.  I could have used my bicycle but I've gotten lazy.  The Suzi is really making me gain weight I think.  Maybe I should give it up.  Anyways, I took a chance out there.  I knew the temperature was still sub-zero today and we had snow earlier in the week.  That means there is a good chance I will run into snow or worse, ice, on the road.  I did check the road around my building first and things looked dry so I went out with the Suzi.  Everything went fine to my relief, except for one short stretch of road on Queens Quay.

Before heading back home, I decided to ride down to Queens Quay and see if there was anything interesting going on and to free my mind of stuff.  Well, there was really nothing in the white winter and my mind was still full of the "stuff", although I did take a couple of pictures with my phone camera.  On the way back home, I was riding on Queens Quay and there was a part of it was still under construction.  I was going through it fairly slowly, at normally traffic speed, when I realized at the last millisecond the dark patches of road in the middle of the road was actually ice and snow.  I almost steered my Suzi into it.  That would have been a bad accident to occur.  I'm sure I would have wiped out.  Lucky me, I gained control of the bike and steered back onto the dry part of the road.  That's one part of Toronto I'm not riding again any time soon.

Panoramic shot of the cold winter in Toronto: