Oh.My.Goodness!

Violets and redbuds and billygoats and baby bison and mockingbirds! In February! What a vision. Thanks for writing about it, Nanci. I could feel the breeze on my face and smell the warm smell of animals and grass with dew still on it.

Kangaroos and tuis and bobtailed lizards! Thanks, CC, for reminding me of what a big, rich planet I live on.

It's 26 degrees at 8 AM up here in the heartland. (That's 3C--I saved the conversion web site!) They say it'll get up to 40 today. A friend is coming over to run at 10AM. Should be downright decent by then. We've turned the corner. It may yet snow, a couple of times even, but the end is in sight.

I will be back out on my bike once it's reliably in the mid 40s, and it's time to start test riding tri bikes! Nanci, you remind me of a 100K I did last summer in a semi-rural county north of Chicago. I saved the map of the route--I think I'll get back out there this spring and do at least part of it. It started out through the grounds of a monastery/retreat center as the sun was coming up--magical.

Thanks for lifting my spirits and starting my day out right, ladies! L.