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Canyon and the environs offered decent places to bike-ride. Receipts for taping and other accessories in February 1991 indicate that I most probably did some bicycling at that time. I recall biking to Moraga, to St. Mary’s College and to Lafayette on at least several occasions (usually in the later afternoon). I don’t think I biked to the track. I also took a few rides up through the Redwood-Chabot watersheds. I’m pretty sure that on two occasions I did a full circuit up along the San Leandro Reservoir, down to the Chabot Equestrian Centre up again to Skyline and then back down to Canyon on Pinehurst Road. (The Pinehurst-Skyline Loop.) These pictures were probably taken on the second trip, assuming that the first was more exploratory.
Given the lush green grass and blooming wildflowers, these fotos had to have been taken in “California Spring”; that is, between early March and mid May. The February receipts for bike accessories pointed to March 1991 but that year is not possible given the cleaned up condition of the porch in the last frame. (Note, that in a picture of me taken either in February 1991 by Tom Geyer or in February 1992 by Mikey, the clothes dryer is still on the porch.) Assuming a Spring 1992 date, the question is whether this roll was shot before or after the three rolls containing pictures of the cabin and its interior.
The cabin-path pictures (N01-N16) were the last ones shot in Canyon because negative number 17 is of the Lakeshore entryway. This was an obvious continuation of the first two rolls of cabin-fotos.
The difficulty with placing the bike-loop fotos before the cabin fotos is the condition of the porch. The presence of paint cans on the porch (purchsed 5/5 and 5/10) indicates that the cabin pictures as a whole were probably taken in mid May. I had always assumed that the cleanest condition of the the porch was the latest. But this does not follow. The porch could have been cleaned up in March (after getting rid of the dryer and other junk) and then messed up again during the painting projects in May. (There is no evidence of the dryer in the longest of these shots.) Given the near fresh green of the scenery and the bright bloom of wild flowers, the bike loop fotos simply could not have been taken anytime after the third week in May. By then the hills turn yellow. Mid April is thus the most likely date
