Zig Zagging Along Wisconsin Backroads
By Kathy. Filed in Uncategorized |
Friendly Guernsey cattle strike a pose.
August 26, 2010
We awoke to a 48-degree morning. It was so cold I didn’t want to leave my sleeping bag. After several cups of piping hot coffee and a full stack of pancakes at the J & J Steakhouse Café in Elroy, I was ready to hit the road. I started on SR 80 and then turned onto SR 33, where I was cycling on rolling hills by dairy farms. It was udderly beautiful cow country.
I cycled by dew covered farmland with mist rising out of wooded areas. The sun sparkled and danced off water droplets covering the land. I rode by a farmhouse where goats were standing on a table in the yard. Maybe they were trying to keep their hooves dry. Wooly white sheep grazing in a field, all turned their backs to me when I stopped to greet them.
A small herd of Guernsey cattle greeted me along a fence. They are my favorite cow breed with their friendly faces and big fuzzy ears. I continued to zigzag along Wisconsin back roads. The county roads have letter names like CR KP or CR V. Missouri is another state that names its county roads with letters. I refer to them as “bingo roads”.
I am in dairy farm country and am seeing fewer beef cattle. Soybean fields still line the road and paint the landscape in a dark rich green. Corn over six feet tall looks like it’s ready to harvest for grain or silage. I really enjoyed my day cycling along the back roads of Wisconsin, through dairy farms and fields of corn. Tomorrow I’ll be riding on Wisconsin’s Glacial Drumlin Trail.
God Bless,
Kathy
Galatians 5:22-23
A farm growing soybeans and corn.
A farm along the back roads of Wisconsin.
Cornfields ready to harvest.
