Made it there just in time to see everyone take off without me.
P.S. It’s a good thing I didn’t go. While riding along the dirt backroads, ignoring signs, the group had an irate landowner pull a gun on them – a situation that tied up the excursion for hours and got the police involved.
I been wukin’ on de railroad
All de live-long day;
I been wukin’ on de railroad
Ter pass de time away.
Spend some time in your mind. Sit down, close eyes, palms upward on knees. What an empty cavern! Fill it with the realization that without your mind, you would be just another sack. Then think of something else.
2 + 2 = 5 always gets me
I glanced round the bus.
Though the windows were closed, and soon muffed, the bus was full of light. It was cruel light.
I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but of impossibilities, some gaunt, some bloated, some glaring with idiotic ferocity, some drowned beyond recovery in dreams; but all, in one way or another, distorted and faded.
One had a feeling that they might fall to pieces at any moment if the light grew much stronger. Then-there was a mirror on the end wall of the bus – I caught sight of my own.
And still the light grew.
The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
Two of us riding nowhere
Spending someone’s
hard-earned pay
You and me, Sunday driving
Not arriving, on our way back homeWe’re on our way home
Two of Us by The Beatles, Let It Be (1970)
We’re going home”
The cast iron Myers Cloverleaf Unloader with free-swinging fork pulley for drawing hay over a double-steel-track high beam or into a well-filled mow.
more to be here posted soon – Desert Adventure as a Slide Show
Eastern Sierra in the far distance. Back in 2007, M & I hiked all day in the scorching heat trying to reach Papoose Flat, where those little sharp peaks are in the distance (left of center). Had to turn around because the sun was beginning to set. Made it back to the car just in time before our water ran out.
