30 Days of Biking 2013: Day 18

Spring is yearning

In the deep and blustery morn

Crows scratch for gifted corn

Squirrels scatter across the ground

Hoping there are nuts to be found

As winds gather from the west

Cottontails hide in their nests

Spring is hidden at this time

Yearning to come into its prime

I slid out the door early this morning for my bike ride. It was 34 degrees and knew it was only going to get colder. I figured I better get while the gettin' was good. It was a bit of an eerie ride too. It felt like a frozen moment in time. Everything knew that a storm was coming and it was both strangely quiet and busy at the same time. At one point I rode past a brace of ducks and they all flew straight at me and over my head. I think I could have grabbed one if I had been so inclined. It was a bit disconcerting. The octave above is my attempt to capture the feeling of the morning. 

Now as I look out the window, a few hours later, it is snowing big hard flakes that sound like rain. And, of course, there is a squirrel eating the bird food. 

I am very glad I went for a ride when I did. I was not able to use GPS again today, but I went a “regular route” of 3.14 miles. The map below is from Day 10, but it is the same path that I took today.

Miles Today: 3.14

Total Miles: 58.93

My favorite poem

See how these masses mill and swarm
And troop and muster and assail:
God!--We could keep this planet warm
By friction, if the sun should fail.
Mercury, Saturn, Venus, Mars:
If no prow cuts your arid seas,
Then in your weightless air no wars
Explode with such catastrophes
As rock our planet all but loose
From its frayed mooring to the sun.
Law will not sanction such abuse
Forever; when the mischief's done,
Planets, rejoice, on which at night
Rains but the twelve-ton meteorite.
 
~Edna St. Vincent Millay