I had lunch today sitting at a picnic table outside our new workplace in Oro-Medonte, enjoying the Sunshine and scuttlebutt with some coworkers. our conversation was interrupted by the lazy rhythmic drone of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules’ big engines. it’s a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft, that I guess took off from the nearby Lake Simcoe Regional Airport. it was flying so closely overhead that I imagined I could touch it if I reached up towards the blue sky. an impressive sight, most certainly.

on the way home, my thoughts came back to the rhythmic sound made by the machinery that kept that humongous Hercules in the air. an old song lyric came back to me as I pedaled home: “mechanical music”. a lyric written by Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist of Rush, for the song, Red Barchetta, which immediately became my earworm as I raced home in the golden hour.