Pennsylvania ♥

 

 Years ago, before the prevalent use of emoticons,  there was a flurry of  I  ❤ something  (e.g. sweatshirts,  bumper stickers,  coffee cups, etc. ).   I don’t own anything that says I ❤ Pennsylvania, but I do. Especially on a perfect, blue-sky September afternoon.

Yesterday, we hauled our bikes to Tioga County and biked almost 18 miles on the Pine Creek Trail,  voted by USA Today as one of the "10 great places to take a bike tour."  It is breathtakingly spectacular, at almost every turn.  

On the way we encountered bridges...

 

...saw a blue heron, a belted kingfisher, hawks soaring, and deer feeding

...breathed in the  rows of Sycamore trees lining the trail

...and the clear, clean Pine Creek flowing through the canyon.

Perfectly perfect...all of it.