Finding Beauty in the Winter 'Blahs'

More adventures for the Heyen's . . .

The temps were in the 50's today with a partly cloudy sky. The best

way to waste away the day, we figured, was to get on the bike and RIDE!

After a couple of times around the parking lot to make sure the weird

noise we heard was not a future mechanical problem - we were off.

I've wanted to go back to some of our Fall Rides and take pictures now -

while all of the leaves are gone and the colors have faded.

Tim is great at finding a new route to an old destination - so, we were

weaving around some very back TN roads. Actually, we found ourselves

running off of the hard surface roads onto rock and mud roads - not a

biker's idea of a good time. Which meant we did quite a few U-Turns

today - but, according to Tim, how else are you suppose to learn unless you try?

Along the way I found a few more TN Barns to add to my list - - -

While driving down the back roads - we found ourselves in a more

dense forest type landscape. I found so much to photograph,

here are a few of the hillsides, streams and trees . . .

Pretty interesting landscape, huh?

We never did make it back to any of the original sites - guess that

will have to be a quest for another day.