I am driving and will be driving most of the day. Roads are funny things, connecting things, delivering things, crisscrossing things...

A flock of pigeons startle, flapping and cooing far up and away. Somewhere but not far off, the sound of country music.

Nights of cold slowed the growth, holding back the forest until it burgeoned seemingly all at once

Much like the weather, I too, was stuck in a strange limbo then, somewhere between man and boy and not knowing quite what to do with either.

Eclipses are, apparently, not uncommon things over the globe...

The dirt road winds from the hill's southern edge, slowly traversing, serpentine, rising higher and higher...