Leftovers

Leftovers! No, not potroast or anything edible. I am refering to leftover pictures that should have been part of my last couple blogs.  The picture below was from our gondola ride up to the tea farms.

Tea fields

 Can you guess which blog this should have been included in? I guess I didn't think about it because this spider was not in my personal space. It was out among some trees far far away from me. Praise God for zoom lenses! Carl estimates its body was about 2 inches long.

Yesterday Carl, Abbi, and I rode our bikes to a hiking trail a couple miles from our house. This is the weekend of our annual Pike Lake camping trip where we always hiked through the beautiful Pike County hills. Obviously, thats not happening this year so we decided to hike the beautiful Taiwan "hills" instead. Oh my! It was quite a workout. The paths were mostly paved which was nice but the part that wasn't paved was covered with stairs. Lots of stairs! Steep stairs! My legs were shaking by the time we returned to our bikes. And yeah, we still had to ride the couple miles home!

                                                           Step One- Lock up the bikes.

 Step Two- Stop and accept the pine juice offered to you by the nice gentleman on the path. Yep, you read right- pine juice. Made from the pine cones from the trees in the area. Yep, it was green. Yep, it was not delicious. Very earthy. Somewhat grainy. But good for your health according to the nice man. Yep, I drank all mine. Abbi did not. And no, we didn't buy any of the bottles for sale.

                                             Step Three- Admire the beautiful scenery!

                      Step Four- Use the zoom on your lense to get a better look at the temple in the distance.

Step Five- Go up, and up. 

Step Six- Admire the banana trees.

 

 

Step Seven- Smile! We are almost back to our bikes!