This afternoon was a beautiful bike ride up to the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Our first “kick-off” Garden ride for Chris & I… hoping to get back into the weekly routine!
The ride was great. The weather was great. And the gardens are already in bloom.
Crazy?!… it’s only April 2nd… we don’t usually get to ride up there for another month!!!

Plus, as if the ride & garden weren’t enough, we also counted 51 white-tailed deer
along the sides of the bike trail going up & back. Some in the fields, or hiding in the woods…
others right there on the trail. That’s somewhere around a deer-and-a-half per mile!!!

Well, we never quite got the 80-degree day we were “promised” yesterday?!
It was still a bit chilly this morning with a cold, damp breeze blowing in off the lake.
Beautiful & breezy… still beautiful though.

And I’m hoping that it warms up a bit today… as I’m planning a late afternoon bike ride
up to the Chicago Botanic Garden today. We’ve had to cancel a couple times for weather
& schedule reasons. Hoping that today is finally a great kick-off ride!

Today’s the day… now go out an embarrass someone!!!