After the Fall

Once the colorful leaves have fallen, trees look so forlorn, but there are still pictures out there.  I took this silhouette reflected picture on a late afternoon bike ride around one of our favorite ponds at Illinois Beach State Park - Sand Lake.

Setting Goals

     Recently we reached a goal I was hoping to acheive this year and that is to bike 1,000 miles.  To date we have gone 1,038 miles.  We did not do this all in one day.  We did 5 miles one day, 10 miles another day several days a week.  Wayne and I could have done more if we had biked on our own, but it was also exercise for our dog, Sebastian.  Therefore the fastest we could go was about 7 mph and a maximum of 10 miles a day.
      Setting goals is a good thing and if you just take it a little bit at a time and keep at it every day or just a few days a week, you will be surprised what you can accomplish in a couple weeks, a couple months, a year.   If the weather holds out, I wonder what our total miles will end up being this year? 
       I took this picture on one of our fall rides at Illinois Beach State Park in the late afternoon.  We had stopped to give our dog a little rest  and I noted the cool shadows we made on the pavement.