21 done

Got a 21 mile run in this morning.  That is my longest run prior to the Lake Wobegon Trail Marathon on May 12th.  The run went pretty well.  There was a section in the middle that was a low point where I felt really tired and uninspired.  But after the 16th mile, I got a second wind that lifted my spirits and carried me all the way home.  Ended on a strong note, so that was a good thing.

Lots of birds here this week.  Today alone I saw five wild turkeys, trumpeter swans, wood ducks, eastern phoebes, great blue herons, ruby-crowned kinglets, sandhill cranes, heard a flock of white-throated sparrows in the woods near my house, and the female red-winged blackbirds and the sedge wrens are back!  Very good bird morning.

Flowers are really blooming, too.  Purple and yellow violets have sprouted up along the trails.  And the wood anemones have started to bloom down here as well.

It looks like mid May!  Everything is getting green and lush.  Really very pretty.

A couple of photos from earlier in the week:

Violets in bloom along the trail

I'm being watched!  A furry friend in the woods just off the trail.