Sometimes the bridesmaid, sometimes the bride

Every year, Delta and I have participated in the Five Boro Bike Ride. It's an organised 45-mile bike ride around New York City, and some 35,000 folks from all over the country particpate each year. Basically, a good ol' bike fest.

Unfortunately this year, we forgot to register by the deadline, and so couldn't paricipate in our beloved ride. Worse yet, we had no one to blame but our own decrepitude, which is of course an inconvenient position to be in.

We'd just started settling comfortably in a morose sulk, when right then we stumbled upon a fun Global Mosaic project hosted by Lens, the photography blog of the New York Times. It was a challenge to people all over the world, to take a picture of wherever they were in the world, at exactly the same moment: 15.00 hrs GMT on Sunday, May 2.

Irony of ironies, that moment in time was exactly in the middle of the Five Boro Bike Ride in NYC. So Delta and I got to participate in the event after all, if not as bikers then at least as photographers.

You know how it goes. Sometimes the bridesmaid, sometimes the bride.