Category: road

dusk bike ride

Slabtown Road sign and cloud
At 8:00pm I rode a five mile loop of state roads. I saw two bald eagles in a clear cut perched on top of trees. I saw a committee of crows beefing at the eagles, sitting on horizontal wood littering the clear cut. In the course of the ride I was never passed by an automobile

a thousand people in the street

Market St west view
“Now in its 21st year, the Charlottesville Marathon & Half Marathon is one of the oldest and most coveted races in Charlottesville. It has been defined as America’s Destination Marathon because of its scenic beauty and historical background”–Charlottesville Marathon
Market St east view
Traffic calming. People in the street. It is a magical moment when the people displace automobile and truck traffic. Incredibly, the mass of humanity is quieter than one idiot with a bad muffler or a loud stereo.

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