Some days, I take my pilgrimage along Piney Woods Church Road slowly, savoring every bit of the roadscape as I make my way to Hutcheson Ferry Road and back to Rico Road again. Other days, like this one, with dark gray skies and drizzle already getting underway, the experience was, I confess, much more tactical. As I slowly walked down the road, camera in hand, I suddenly saw exactly what called me to photograph it — a single leaf that had fallen and was pinned by a bundle of loblolly pine needles to a bare branch of a shrub. It was well above my head, and photographing it involved some guesswork since I could barely see the image on the viewscreen. Once I had the image I sought, though, I felt a sense of contentment — I had found what I needed for the day. Under even more leaden skies than before, I set off across a neighbor’s horse pasture for home.