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We can go to the end of our street and take a ramp up to Fort Wayne’s River Greenway that follows the Maumee River to New Haven, or the other way to downtown. Getting from our house to the ramp takes 3 to 5 minutes. I’ve always considered being so close a real plus. In the early evening, I’m often struck by the landscape’s natural beauty enhanced by the setting sun which you can see in some of my posted pictures.

Having looked on the net for photos of bike paths in other areas, I’ve found they’re not plentiful. I’m not sure why. Bike paths appear to be listed on municipal websites that don’t see a reason for advertising with pictures what they have to offer. Information? Yes.
Pictures? No.  Personally, I’d be more likely to visit a greenway after seeing nice photos that make me “want” to go there. But maybe that’s just me.  At any rate,  I’ve decided to post some of my best photos of Fort Wayne’s rivergreenway scenery on this web site.

 It’s so easy to think beautiful locations are always somewhere else and not where you live.

While I do see a few people on our bike trails during weekend afternoons, I tend to think of the rivergreenway as my own private domain because almost nobody uses it, kind of like the city art museum, or any furniture store. Do you ever wonder how furniture stores stay in business? You go in and walk around, but only on a weekend are you likely to see a handful of potential customers.  I remember thinking the same thing when I visited art galleries in Midtown Manhattan and Soho years ago. I had a major gallery on 57th Street showing my paintings, but wondered if many people really went to those places. There’s the public image, and then there’s the behind the scenes reality.

Like art museums and galleries, greenway bike paths and trails are for the few and faithful devotees.  Most people would rather go elsewhere.

I’ll be posting new information and photos from time to time, so I hope you’ll look around the site and come back later.

Steve DeSanto  - Fort Wayne, Indiana

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