My bike functions for work (errands in town, doing trail maintenance on the land), exercise (anytime I'm on it, including planned rides) and play (just enjoying riding on it.)    Today was a mix of work (trail maintenance) and fun--as I improved the trail through the dry woods, it made it more fun to ride that trail.   At first, it was "ride a ( Read more... )

I grew up in South Texas, much of which was covered at that time (and more had been) by vegetation known as "brush."   Already it was getting rarer, but it consisted of low woody plants, often in clumps, cactus, short bunch-grasses, and forbs.  It was all drought tolerant (almost everything could, in really bad droughts, drop its leaves and play ( Read more... )