This was my first glimpse of the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. After a chilly, 4 hour ride, I was so excited to be getting close, I just had to pull over alongside the highway and stare.
This is also my first real glimpse of the photos from that fateful ride. I look forward to the weekend and an opportunity to spend more time reviewing and editing the images.
After the weekend: my first oral surgery!!
When life, health, work, and the damn shut down push us to focus on the negative, we need to stop and see the beauty that surrounds us. Even when it’s challenging.
Misty mornings like these encourage me to stop, and sigh, and find peace … at least for awhile.
It was the morning light that made me stop, but it was the webs that made me linger.
As I head off to Charlottesville for a Saturday meeting, I’ll hope that you all are outside somewhere, enjoying the beauty of early fall.
I am so lucky to have this view right outside my office door!
I love the variations in color – the greens, tans, blues, whites – and then there’s that trailer!
This is the view at the end of a 1.8 mile hike: Calvert Cliffs, located in a Maryland state park with the same name. Gorgeous! (This is yet another cell phone shot. I’m anxious to view and edit the photos from my camera).
What a day! Total mileage was just 100, but I rode through historic communities, visited Point Lookout, waded in the waters of St Mary’s River, enjoyed a much needed cold beer at a local biker bar, and had dinner with old friends.
Today I’m off to explore a bit more of Southern Maryland before crossing over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge into the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Delaware.
Everyone knows what it’s like to come home from vacation with a ton of digital images to sort through, delete, edit, and post. Well, add to that my ignorance with technology and getting photos from camera to tablet and back off tablet. Ah well … lessons learned (and still to be learned in terms of patience).
Part 1 of the 2013 Bike Trip involved a 550 mile ride to Urbanna, Virginia and back. It was a glorious 3 days on the Rappahannock River and on the Middle Peninsula. I’m home for 24 hours before heading back out. Lots to do, including figuring out that technology problem, before getting back on the bike early tomorrow morning. Can’t wait!
For now, know that I enjoyed …
Sunrises….
The beauty of the water …
The elements …
The wildlife …
A whole lot of fun with the GOAs (Girls of August; friends from grad school 20 years ago; this was taken with someone’s phone; I’m in the VT cap) …
And a little history on the way home … Appomattox, Virginia … the old jail house
Hope you enjoyed these! More to come!!
Nothing like a lovely early morning swim … so refreshing! Osprey feeding their young; crabbers checking their pots; and the laughter of friends in the distance.
Morning Everyone!!
I’m having to make do with the cell phone shot since I’m still having problems with internet from the tablet way out here on the Middle Peninsula. It’s a glorious morn!
Hot Tub … Wine … Friends … A Stunning View
7 Days ’til Vacation and the Annual Ride!!!
Life on the Bike and other Fab Things 