November 16, 2025

Sunday. From the Houtplaats, Rheden. We left around 11:20. Focus. Overcast and a chilly wind out of the east, gradually diminishing. At first into the wind to De Steeg, there left and up, into the woods. Dark, quiet, and damp. Shoots of deciduous trees still carrying bright leaves amid tall, barren conifers. Lots of wet leaves on the pavement. Sunday walkers and riders out, but not crowded. The route led through Loenermark toward Beekbergen. Good views of the fields from little roads on the edge of the woods, such as Hulhorstweg. Asphalt to and through Hoenderlo, where they were open for business. Asphalt also past heathlands and fields and the Deelen airfield. Stunning view of the Rozendaalse Veld and the north side of the Posbank, first from the Koningsweg and then from the bike path along the Veld. The rolling heathlands alternatingly brown/yellow and a deep, dark purple, with here and there the yellow or red of a small tree. Back down through more fallen leaves and leaves still hanging on into the pastures at the bottom of the moraine.