Awaiting the harvest…

The prairies are beautiful at this time of year as they await harvest…

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Blue skies and billowing cotton balls of cloud float overhead…P1120372wheat

Amber waves of grain swell to the horizon…

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Prairie roads stretch lazily on a Sunday’s afternoon…

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Just a couple more weeks of precious heat and the grain will be dried to perfection. In the meantime the scent of sun-warmed hay and grain is heady.

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And I sit with my last-born talking of what’s to come.

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She will be wafted away shortly to the next stage of maturing.

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The harvest is being made ready, and in the meantime it is beautiful.

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–LS

“He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.” II Cor.9:10

Island Living…

We don’t actually live on an island, but still… you’ve got to take a ferry to find long flat miles to pedal… So one fine morning in order to make the most of some pre-fall sunshine we took off for Vancouver Island to pedal…

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Ironically, our ultimate destination was another much smaller island…

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Lovely country roads wend by pastures and quiet haunts… even a picturesque marsh.

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We even got to do some walking this time around…

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up a woodland trail in cool dappled shade to an overlook of …

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Now that would be a little place to live; we’d have to get a stationery tandem!
I think I shall count my blessings…

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Whew! by day’s end we’d pedaled 68 miles and I was more than ready for the ferry ride home…

–LS

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He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. Ps.23:2

Looking back at Three Hundred Miles…

Well, it has been quite the vacation…a fitness vacation for sure.  We logged just over 300 miles in just over a week’s time and are now on the ferry home…Today, some clips from the journey in which we found not only beautiful wide open spaces but also the joy of touring them in the company of like-minded others…

Bellingham and beyond…

Every once in a long while you must stop by the road and consider another point of view…

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This was a long day for me, my longest to date—72 miles of pedaling across hill and dale, with and without company—P1110433P1110449P1110458P1110460P1110464

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It concluded in an unexpectedly beautiful way,  huddled with 3 other tandem teams in an upper room of one of their homes overlooking Bellingham Bay, watching fireworks across the water…having shared not only a ride, but wonderful hospitality, a summer’s supper and a long walk getting to know each other. Such was the delightful day #2 of our tandem vacation!

Then off to Portland and surrounds…

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There’s this amazing feature of cycling that enhances any food eaten, making even a 7-11 hotdog something worth raving about!  When you need food it tastes so good!

 

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We passed many farmland miles.  I couldn’t get enough of snapping photos on the go…

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And then we found this great bike shop…

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…and spiffed up our ‘kit’ with memento jerseys and matching helmets…

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…before heading back to Canada-land.

Heading home via Victoria…

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One last ride around town…

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…before packing it in to head home.

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It’s been quite a vacation!

–LS

Oh LORD my God, you have accomplished many things; you have done amazing things and carried out your purposes for us.  No one can thwart you!  I want to declare them and talk about them, but they are too numerous to recount! Ps.40:5

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