What is the thing you see most on your rides?

[kestrel]

- crazy little squirrels that can't decide if they want to cross your path or not

- gopher snakes crossing the path/road (a lady in a SUV safely stopped traffic and escorted/carried the huge snake off the road.. kudos to her!)

- little birdies harassing the crazy little squirrels

- those damn guys in their little green Velo wear

For awhile, I *swear* the same guy was lapping me on Old La Honda road.. I know that I'm slow, but thinking that I've been lapped 3 times was demoralizing. Apparently there are *hoards* of people wearing the same jersey.

- those friendly of guys in their Los Gatos Bicycle Racing Club wear

- tandems! i love watching tandem teams!

[shewhobikes]

you won't believe what we see. Just today:

Great church signs. As in, "Without the bread of life, you're toast."

Hay bales, appaloosa horses, signs for Lickskillet Road and Bachelor Ave, houses from the early 1900s made entirely of stone with tin roofs and plastic flowers rooted by the mailbox,

a white t-shirt with black letters that said "God Has Been So Good to Me" draped over a fence,

mist rising over a lake with dogwoods on the banks turning red,

the ususal road kill--squirrels, possums, an occasional turtle, unidentifiable squashed furry things,

a big herd of cows headed at a trot toward a pickup (dinner time!) followed by a huge flock of those white cow birds, whatever they are,

a house with icicle lights hanging across the front and a halloween skeleton hanging on the door.

I promise, we're not all rednecks. But when you get out in the country, this is what you see!