Bicycling!

Enjoy a few photos taken by "Me and My Shadow". You have to guess which one is JoPapa and which one is me. :-) But first a caution: "do not attempt to take photos while riding". If I were a professional Ninja Photographer like Blue Window Creative, http://lookbook.bluewindowcreative.com/category/blog/ I could snap a great shot without wrecking our bikes thus sentencing JoPapa to several weeks of healing from a broken collar bone! Notice how our handle bars are just touching...then we wrecked!!! Yikes!

When not in recovery, we love to get out in the cool of the day and ride together. We see so many things and enjoy being in nature.

We relish the fresh air, sunshine, smells of hay, birds calling, cows mooing and, the feel of the road or trail beneath our tires.

As we ride by, we have often surprised turkey, deer, coyote, fox, lizards, and snakes. We don't always manage to get a photo of the wildlife but it is always so fun to see that they are hiding along the way.  We hear the rustle of dry leaves as rabbits, squirrels and other small creatures scurry off to hide.


Me and My Shadow riding past the La Petite Gemme, the prairie on the Frisco Highline Trail.



A five-lined skink looking for a snack.

Now, if you are afraid of snakes, close your eyes for a second and scroll past these next couple of pictures. We don't always see snakes, but when we do, we'll stop and take a photo if we remember to bring along a camera.  Yesterday, we rode past a fat green snake.  It was bigger than this one and was in the center of the trail. Since JoPapa was right beside me and the snake was in the middle, it had no where to go but up. I was surprised to see the whole body spring up, not just it's head. Boing! We were past in a flash with no harm done to any of us.

A little green snake surprised to see us ride past.

This snake is tense! Look how bumpy it is. It is about 24" long.  He was just leaving.

Water snake under the Sac River Bridge.

Me and my shadow looking over the other side of the Sac River Bridge on the Frisco Highline Trail.

 

Me and My Shadow riding past a rock bluff along the road.

 


The sunrises welcome  us each day and the sunsets wish us goodnight.

 

I know God is at work making this world and it's all good!

I also enjoy reading about others’ biking adventures. Pondero came to Missouri from Texas to ride the Frisco Highline Trail. His blog and photos were wonderful! Here is a quote and then a comment from our Polk County Bike Club friend, Steve Butcher.
http://chris-pondero.blogspot.com/
Unlike my friends in other locales, I don't see many stone walls during my wanderings. It seemed good to stop a moment and ponder. The one who placed the first stone instructs us in the virtues of vision, patience, and hard work.
GravelDoc said... It's interesting to look at a rock wall and discover what, at first, seems to be a bunch of rocks randomly stacked together; only to discover the builder had to hand pick each stone and fit it in with the others to build a structure that would stand. Perhaps this is kind of a picture of what the Master Builder does. I like rock walls.



That's a glimpse of my kind of fun.  Want to get a bike and go for a ride with us now?