Category: road

quercus falcata

roadside oak
When folk resist the chainsaw temptation trees grow.
Quercus falcata, also called southern red oak, spanish oak, bottomland red oak or three-lobed red oak is an oak (part of the genus Quercus). Native to the southeastern United States, it gets its name the “Spanish Oak” as these are the areas of early Spanish colonies, whilst “southern red oak” comes from both its range and leaf color during late summer and fall. The southern red oak is a deciduous angiosperm, so has leaves that die after each growing period and come back in the next period of growth.–Wikipedia

Road trip

new skete
Cambridge NY, New Skete
puppy hand
Picked up a puppy
puppy on leash
German police, Monsa, little dog…
target truck
dogs are mentioned in the bible four times
puppy nap
there is a symbiosis, trust, that can be cultivated between dogs and people
Hazelton PA
halfway between Cambridge and Charlottesville, walking on the outskirts of Hazelton PA
What’s up with the suffix kill? (B.Gordon answers: “A kill is a body of water, most commonly a creek, but also a tidal inlet, river, strait, or arm of the sea. The term is derived from the Middle Dutch kille (kil in modern Dutch), meaning “riverbed” or “water channel”.)
backseat
Matilda rode in the backseat with E
river bridge
Susquehanna sunset
puppy foreground
Tilly visiting E a week later