Bike Trip!

One of the most energizing days in early winter is to be able to take a bike ride after a pause in the pattern of cold gray rain when the windy weather breaks into the rare sunny 60's.  We had this lucky weather break the first week of December.  We drove to a state park on a point of land on the Bay where we then set out by bike.  Water on one side of the point was as calm as blue glass and on the other side choppy with white frothy peaked waves.  

 

The air had been washed so clear you had to squint your eyes to see against the angle of the sun. We had the state park all to ourselves except for a young romantic couple out by the lighthouse on the point.  The prior night's heavy rain had flooded the coastal area and we had to bike around small ponds, and little rivers of mud and leftover rain, and washed up sand and drifts of pine needles across the trails along the marsh grass and by the shore.   With my camera in hand I found beautiful bronze, copper, and golden remnants of the summer glittering in the sun.

One is only given a handful of jeweled days like this and my chest cold had at long last reached its wane so that I could enjoy the day fully.

OK, guess I am ready for winter.  (As always clicking on photos gets a better view.)