I was scratching my head trying to figure out what to title this pair of images from today’s saunter down Piney Woods Church Road. Then I realized that both of these are animals whose names betin with the letter s. Not terribly creative, but sufficient for late in the day on a Friday.
A mockingbird, mocking most enthusiastically, on a sunny afternoon in Georgia….
I had a marvelous time exploring Piney Woods Church Road this morning. Strange to say, I walked the its length hundreds of times with our dogs before I began this project, and I was bored with it and really wanted to be anyplace but there. Yet since beginning this project 100 days ago, every day I have found joy and delight exploring this 4/10-mile gravel road. Today I left my wristwatch at home, and spent an hour and a half exploring the early morning light. Here are a few more photographs from my day’s adventures.
I lie prone on the damp ground, gazing through a camera lens at drops of dew clinging to blades of grass in the sunlight. The ground sparkles with minute mirrors, inviting me to pause and reflect. It is Day 100, and I am part-way along Piney Woods Church Road, on my journey home.
Three photographs of spring foliage, all aglow in the golden evening sunlight along Piney Woods Church Road: oak; greenbrier; and poison ivy.
At last, a photograph of Piney Woods Church Road, at about the half-way point. Bathed in golden late-day light, the path appears enchanting. And so it is, and has been, these past three months. I approach a bend in my own journey; tomorrow is the 100th day of the Piney Woods Church Road Project.
Here are two more photographs from today’s late-day ramble down Piney Woods Church Road, in the time of day photographers call the “golden hour” before sunset. The first is of leaves of Chinese wisteria; the second is a nondescript shrub aglow with light.
On a late afternoon in spring shortly before sunset, even an invasive Japanese honeysuckle along Piney Woods Church Road looks stunning, bathed in sunlight.
Guess who was hiding among the branches of a black cherry tree along Piney Woods Church Road today, calling insistently to passersby? I still haven’t managed to get a crisp image of this brightly-adorned street musician….
Below are two more photographs I took after the rains ended today: Chinese wisteria and black cherry.
