On my daily walk down Piney Woods Church Road today, I relished the warm, moist air, evocative of a rain forest. Everywhere I was bedazzled by sundry shades of green — saplings, shrubs, and vines all crowding for space along the roadside. In this image, one vine supports another as they scramble for sunlight.
Under clear skies and with the temperature at about freezing, I set off late on a Saturday morning in search of adventures along Piney Woods Church Road. Perhaps it was the forecast, calling for more of the same for days on end, briefly interrupted by warmer weather on Monday, that made me seek out patches of green and buds suggesting spring. I took quite a few photographs of mosses and the green leaves of a vine I have yet to identify. But in the end, I selected this photograph of a vine tendril beside the roadway, looking back toward the junction with Rico Road. There is a patch of distant green, at least — the blurred outlines of a pair of cedars. Springtime seems quite distant at the moment, too.
This morning I kept noticing fine vines, twisting and turning, along the roadside all around me. Some of them I have photographed many times already; others I encountered for the first time today. Against the sky, many appeared to be aerial calligraphy, though I could not decipher their meanings.
