Tuesday Ride

Well it turned out that yesterday, Tuesday, was my first ride in a week. 7 days without a ride. I could hardly stand it! Still as in my last post, the ride was going to be easy with less miles. I mean I was ready for everyone to pass me that rode a bike on the Island. It was cold and wet and I was one of only a few out training. So the thought of getting passed turned out to be my own BS to myself. The ride did turn out to be 32 miles in a gear I normally climb shallow hills in. I barely broke a sweat. 2 hours 25 mins for 32 miles! Man that's slow. I never felt tired during the ride. I even climbed a nice hill of about a mile, French Road Hill. Felt great once my legs got into it. I kept the climb easy to. Just eased up the hill hardly breathing outside of normal. I got my first ride in in 7 days. Also half way through this ride the sun came out and the rain stopped. It made it all the way to 52 degrees. It felt like summer. I was dressed for wet and cold. A little over dressed. It was better than getting cold.
When I got home, dressed back into jeans and a warm shirt. Put down some food. Chicken soup with a chicken sandwich. During that time. Looking out over the bay and the back yard. Looking at all the local back yard birds we feed I saw one of the 6 eagles that live close by sitting in the fir tree right next to our yard. 30 yards away or closer. Very close. Wow, it was wonderful. Now I see these grand birds everyday close as they fly eye high just over the back yard. This one, the young one. Still in it's dark feathers of it's youth. It was just sitting there. Normally when their this close and they see any movement they fly off. Even not so close they fly away. This young bird was warming himself in the sun. I looked around and saw what I think is his parents doing the same in their perch tree 100+ yards away and at the very top of a tall fir tree. The one close was just right there! So I got the camera out a took a few shots. It's my photo for the post. I even went out to fill our back yard bird feeders where this giant could watch every move I made. He still did not fly off. That's never happened so close to an eagle. It was one of those rare moments with birds.