Wouldn\’t we all like to be flying high? Like an eagle? Or perhaps soaring aloft under our own power, as in the Gossamer Albatross? At any rate, we\’d all like to be flying down the road.

I\’m not that fast, but what does it matter? I saw a bald eagle today! I was still about six miles from home, and saw that I would need to re-apply sunblock in about 20 minutes. I knew I couldn\’t get home that fast, so I stopped.

I was busily rubbing on the sunblock when I looked upwards and saw the eagle. Even though it was flying high, I could still discern that tell-tale white head.

After getting home and having a snack; working on blogs for a while; washing dishes and today\’s cycling clothes; and eating a sandwich (I was already hungry again!), I turned to YouTubes of national anthems.

I enjoy seeing the national flags — Kazakhstan\’s is beautiful blue! —  and listening to the music. The anthems\’ moods range from elegiac to martial, and everything in between!

Getting back to the eagle, does the edge of  each bald eagle\’s \”hood\” have a distinctive pattern? It wouldn\’t surprise me. After all, each zebra\’s stripe pattern is unique, just as human fingerprints are.