[first]We drive down a back road in South Carolina searching for this place. I saw it in a magazine once. I filed it away in my invisible wish list of someday adventures.[/first] When Finley and I arrive, it’s almost noon. I’m all smiles like a little kid in a candy store. The sun is high and it casts speckles of light on the sandy soil. It’s quiet except for the birds singing and a few crickets. My daughter and… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Places
A Field Trip ~
[first]On a warm summer day, Mama and I drive down I-75, passing the place I wore a crown, once upon a time, and then we move along an endless succession of pastures where cattle and horses laze the day away under the shade of live oak trees.[/first] We cross the infinite expanse of Payne’s Prairie, and then take the Micanopy exit. It’s just a few more miles and then… we are into the green. The greenest place I have ever… Read more »
When you need to breathe…
[first]I head north on VA-231 and turn on to the Old Blue Ridge Turnpike. And as I drive a few miles I feel my body relax. I breathe deep as I pass a few pastures ~ grain silos ~ Old Rag Mountain in the distance crowned in the signature blue haze. A little further down the road I see the men gathered in front of the Old Mercantile, trading fishing and hunting stories.[/first] I cross the road and head up… Read more »
