river's edge exploring
River's edge.
Yesterday I had two chances to explore the river's edge on the Allegheny. In the morning Gabe (since he is a senior now he doesn't go to school every day) wanted to go on a walk and go shopping so we stopped at that place (the mouth of Deep Hollow creek) that Jan and I discovered on Wednesday and went down there.
Water's edge.
The mud from the winter is drying out now.
River tree - there were 2 Canada geese out there honking as we went by - warning us off.
Later, after school Rossy and Sebby wanted to go on a bike ride and this time we went upstream on the Allegheny to another place I've always wanted to explore. Along the river there are grassy areas below the bike trail where you can see groves of trees beside the river. Sometimes there is a path leading down to them but we are just speeding along on our bikes and don't go down. I always want to go down though. Last evening seemed like a good time to do it and everyone was agreeable.
Rossy watching the river go by. The River Ridge gate is behind us.
Couldn't resist getting a picture of Black Beauty with the River Ridge gate in the background.
Here is what it's like down on the "bottom" by the river.
Sebby and the bikes. It wasn't that easy for me to peddle to this place. There was still wet mud in lots of places. I could walk over it but my bike wouldn't peddle through it - it's a hybrid bike and the tires are too thin and not knobby enough. The grandboys have mountain bikes and could keep going through the mud.
Rossy wanted to climb up the bank and not use the trail back to the bike path. It looked rather difficult to me but he loves to climb things and loves challenges so he decided to push his bike up the hill through the bushes and weeds to the bike trail - make his own short cut.
He has a ways to go yet. But he did eventually succeed.
We had the gift of a ray of sun before leaving.
Going home. Up on the bike trail now - looking down to where we were on the river's edge.