After a good breakfast of eggs, croissant and latte, DH and I got out early on this brisk sunny Autumn morning at 50 degrees. My favorite regular 21 mile loop ride.

The sun slanted all golden across a field, backlighting black Angus cows with their calves nursing. Their breath steamed in the cold air. Blue heron on a green pond. Crows barking angrily over the cut cornfields with row upon row of dry yellow stumps. Squirrels rattling around in the brown forest leaves burying butternuts. A brown cottontail scampering across our path. Trees arched over the back country roads....