Lakewood FP hike

No more biking for a while. The weather has turned cold and windy with snow flurries threatened, so we met Dave and Patti and hiked for nearly 2 hours through Lakewood Forest Preserve, sharing the woods with several equestrians and over 20 deer, including 3 bucks -- a very unusual sight -- but since they are looking for the females, they are our and about.


As you can see, the trees are nearly denuded and the trail deep with leaves, and with a howling wind, we can feel the coming of winter in the air. We biked over 2400 miles this year on fat tires, but I fear that's the end of our biking season for many months.



After a nice lunch at Culvers, we went to Lifesource and both gave blood. I felt pretty good after they thanked me for what was to be my 42nd donation since they started computerizing the donations, but didn't feel so special after I asked whose photograph was hanging on the wall and was told he was a resident who had donated 300 times and has a standing reservation for every other Friday to give platelets via the Apheresis procedure. Wow! That represents a lot of little holes in the arms!