Oh my … we have been cycling through an explosion of color. Everyone talks about Texas Blue Bonnets, and we have seen tons of these flowers, but the variety of wildflowers is amazing. Even the cactus are blooming! If you include our short shake down cruise / ride near my brother-in-law’s farm, we have now cycled 417 miles and are staying overnight in Stockdale, Texas. Access my daily bike diary via this link

With out further adieu … Texas Wildflowers by the hundreds of thousands!

Yours truly … Wildflower Immersion Therapy

Blue Bonnets

Blooming Cactus … Red and Yellow

A Wild Variety of Color!

Our Route Through the Hill Country

Molly and I are 376 miles into our bike tour. The Hill Country was both gorgeous, and hilly! What did I expect?! We are now taking a big detour around San Antonio in preparation for biking to the national forests in East Texas.

In Kerrville, Texas, I had the opportunity to do some birding one afternoon along the Guadalupe River and the next day in Bandera … Cowboy Capital of Texas. Here are some of the birds I found. When I next have a decent web connection, I will upload some more bird and wildflowers photos. The color along the roadsides has been stupendous.

Yellow-Crowned Night Herons
Egyptian Goose

Unknown Kind of Goose and Wildflowers

Teaser … Wildflowers! (full post coming)Local Cyclists Were Curious About Our Tour!

We’ve started. Yesterday was a shake down ride and today was actual touring. Between the two rides we have 60 miles under our belt … 45 today. While we had planned to head to East Texas first, the blooming wildflowers demanded a route change … before we had even started. Thus, we are off to the Hill Country. We biked back roads from Paluxy over to De Leon, starting tomorrow we work our way down Texas 16 to the Hill Country.

My daily bike diary is on the Crazy Guy on a Bike Portal, but on my own blog I will focus with occasional posts about the experience. Thus, our last two days on my Bill and Philllis’s farm were fantastic. I would bird at sunrise by walking the farm followed by a training ride and R&R. Here some of the results.

The Farm!

Cedar Waxwings at Dawn

Turkey Vulture

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

Red-Bellied Woodpecker Love.