Well, to prevent totally caving to the phenomena of the "grass being greener on the other side," I just boosted the saturation and contrast in this photo:
This is as hilly as you could ever get in North Dakota. I kid you not; this is our ski slope! (My son once broke his collar bone skiing there. The parent accompanying him on this middle school trip really annoyed me when she called me from the hospital, s*l*o*w*l*y dragging it out that she was in the hospital with my son, then digressing into something about the weather, before she told me he was fine! ALWAYS begin these conversation with a parent with the bottom line: "He/she is fine." That's the rule. Don't break it! It's evil to handle it any other way.)
We did have a hitchhiker on our trip to see the scenery. Before we got totally lost, out of range of our Garmin and cell phone coverage. How do you get lost when there are only a handful of roads? And we kept asking, is THIS the spectacular scenic byway?
And we saw wildlife, so all was good.
This is as hilly as you could ever get in North Dakota. I kid you not; this is our ski slope! (My son once broke his collar bone skiing there. The parent accompanying him on this middle school trip really annoyed me when she called me from the hospital, s*l*o*w*l*y dragging it out that she was in the hospital with my son, then digressing into something about the weather, before she told me he was fine! ALWAYS begin these conversation with a parent with the bottom line: "He/she is fine." That's the rule. Don't break it! It's evil to handle it any other way.)
We did have a hitchhiker on our trip to see the scenery. Before we got totally lost, out of range of our Garmin and cell phone coverage. How do you get lost when there are only a handful of roads? And we kept asking, is THIS the spectacular scenic byway?
And we saw wildlife, so all was good.
7 comments:
Looks beautiful! At least still green and warm! :) Our fall is starting now, and colors are changing. And is that a real cricket? Because that thing looks HUGE....yikes!!
If I have to be lost, I want it to be in a place like that! It looks like you are having a great trip! How did the dog do being in the car?
I love, love the water scene and the winding road on the hillside is just beautiful. Great photos!
I had not heard about Scotty's accident! And then to have the news broken to you by an idiot! Arggh! Nice pictures though!
Beautiful! Love the photo of the road winding up the hillside.
Looks very lush - and I can relate to back roads and road construction that is not obvious to the naked eye (actually, ours is construction for the sake of construction: pave road, wait 2 weeks, go back and cut out squares of newly paved road, rinse, repeat). Very cook shot of the cricket.
*cool - not "cook" - and no, we don't cook our crickets here. (well, not in this house we don't). lol!
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