I have taken to taking my family on rides on the Eastern Marsh Trail, and other trails in Salisbury MA lately. Honestly, the other trails are just filler. The real action is on the EMT, at least for my wife and little guy. Every time we go out there we see dozens of birds and other critters. Yesterday we saw otters, gophers, and bunnies who just sat there at the side of the trail and let the boy look at them and squeal in delight before hopping calmly away. We saw a hawk swoop down and make this kill. It was pretty cool. As he sat there waiting for the little critter to stop struggling, two blue jays who must have had a nest close by, sat in a tree over him, loosing their minds and dive-bombing him. Neither my wife nor I had ever seen any thing like this live and in person before. It was quite a sight.
Of course, there are the people that you see too. As we began out ride we cam across three girls, about 14 years old or so. On was sitting on the path and the other two were standing over her. It looked like she took
a tumble or something. We slowed to make sure that she was all right and she said that she was fine. It was then that we noticed that they had a box of sidewalk chalk. When we got back to the area where they were sitting we noticed that they had just peddled off. What they left behind was this beautiful mural. I was very excited that I was there to get pictures of it before the forces of rubber and rain washed it all away. 
And just because it's a bike blog...
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