Week 3 of training 127 miles 662 to go. Beautiful spring

This week has been a great week to enjoy the amazing spring weather.  Enjoyed the biking through the country seeing lush green pastures, flowering trees and scrubs, sound of bull frogs announcing their presence, smell of road kill and the off course the smell of manure being spread as fertilizer on the farm fields.  Very much enjoy the beauty of the massive blooms on the magnolia, the tiny flowers on the red bud tree and the delicate blooms of the pink dogwood. The beauty of the countryside just invigorates me. I sense the freshness of the new season of life with the fields of dandelions in bloom, and fresh ploughed fields waiting for seed to be planted. What a joy.  I feel blessed to experience this and to have the ability to be out cycling mile after mile each day. I never get tired of seeing God's  splendor and beauty displayed in so many ways in the different seasons.  It just feels great to be alive.  I feel fortunate as there are many cyclists wanting to train but a late spring snow storm is preventing them from getting out on the roads. Also aware several cyclists have had accidents. Please pray for safety for all cyclists while they train and during the ride. 

 I have also enjoyed the birds coming to our feeders.  We have many black birds, gold finches and sparrows but also have a Baltimore oriole and a rose breasted grosbeak- what a treat.

I had hoped to post more pictures of the flowering trees, but my computer is not cooperating well. Lots to learn about how to blog and post pictures. 

May you all have a blessed week and enjoy this spring season.