November off to a good start

On the first day of November, the weather was beautiful so Rusty and I decided to get on our bikes again for a nice fall ride.

We drove to Davey, a tiny community north of our house to begin our ride.

We rode to Ceresco, another small community north on HWY 79.

A couple days later we hosted the dinner group (4 couples) for dinner.

We watched the end of the exciting NE-Michigan game before dinner.

Linda and Kathie catch up on "teacher stuff."

I'm not sure how it started, but somehow we got diverted into molasses sampling.

Wayne tries a spoonful of molasses.

The elections seemed to be the only thing one could talk about for the first week of November.  I am so glad they are over!!  Peggy and I traveled to Omaha to the Bob Kerrey victory rally, which unfortunately ended in defeat.

Son Henry introduces his father, Bob Kerrey.

 On the 8th of November I rode the recently completed bike trail that begins just outside our back door.

I rode over 6 miles ENTIRELY on bike trails.

My ride took me over two interstates, 3 creeks, and multiple railroad tracks.  I was able to get to Lincoln's Haymarket area in about 30 minutes and not once be in traffic.
Life is Good!!!

I am only a third of the way through my newest book, Portraits of the Prairie: The Land That Inspired Willa Cather.  

Richard Schilling has painted watercolors of the Nebraska prairie and linked most of the pictures to quotes from Willa Cather.  I have always had an infatuation with the NE prairie, and each bike trip I've taken in the state has intensified that feeling.  I am practically drooling over each page in this book.

“As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.”—My Ántonia, Willa Cather