enjoying the scenery...

...when I drove to Florida on Tuesday.  Making my way south to Chattahoochee, it was a beautiful day, and a delight to see all the springy greens as a thousand shades colored the landscape. The drive down highway 27 is always peaceful, with little traffic, other than the occasional log truck, and slow moving farm equipment.

Plus the delightful possibility of law enforcement awaiting speeders. Easy to find oneself with a heavy foot, out there in the rural areas, with a smooth, little trafficked four lane and practically no one else on the road. Though there might be some po-po lurking in the median, or at a cross roads, trying to look discreet.

Wide fields of spring wheat, with the silvery-gray green heads, bobbing in the breeze, out in the distance, all the way to a tree line of darker green. Sparkling white grancy gray-beards blooming in yards of farmhouses along the way. Patches of pale pink primroses, dancing in the wind, accompanied by the dark purple of low growing native verbena - surely the hardiest of wildflowers, growing in rock hard clay along the right-of-way. Occasional clumps of brilliant yellow coreopsis, amidst miles and miles of reddest clover blooming along the median.

And a bright blue sky, with fluffy white clouds high overhead: a beautiful day to be alive, rolling down the road, living in America. And then - when I got to FL, I enjoyed a visit with some of my fave. people, and puttered around in the yard a bit, before I had to get in the car to return to GA.

 

greybeard tree

 

closeup of greybeard branches