A visiting student from Tunisia recently expressed to us how beautiful she found the Lansing River Trail, which winds, mostly, along the Red Cedar River. I bike it all the time, it’s my preferred way home from work when the weather is nice and I’m not in a hurry. So I decided to bike along the trail today with a camera – because while sometimes cameras distract you when you should be paying attention, other times they make you stop and smell the roses. You can file this under “appreciating what you have in life”.

What? Oh, the zoo is along the trail too! ‘Tis a tufted deer. A cute, tufted deer.