I got to ride today after almost three weeks of not riding! Yay. The usual 27-mile trail route, mergansers, coots, cormorants, herons. It was warmish, around 50 degrees, mostly cloudy, sprinkling towards the end. I loved it. I can also report how to be sure early spring is here in the PNW: the first gnats in the face, and the male red-winged blackbirds singing their trilling/multi-stop spring song that always makes me think of shattered crystals. NICE day to be out.
"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks