This is where I was when I missed last Monday’s post.

So often you get to see close-ups of my world, with a tight focus on details of the nearby woods and lakes and parks, and of course my little kitchen garden, and our local Botanical Gardens, too.  It would be good to widen the scope of the lens sometimes, I think.  (In any case, it’s going to be necessary to do so when we move.)

Under a mass of slowly shifting cloud, these are some of the wintry, roadside scenes that met my eye on the way home a week ago.

See the Appalachian Mountains rising blue in the distance?

Where we live, in the foothills, the mountains can be a mysterious presence.  You might go days without seeing them, even under perfect blue skies.  And then something in the atmosphere changes, and there they are, clear as day.

We live very near a road named for its view of the mountains — but I have never yet seen them when driving or walking on that road, in over two years’ time.  Isn’t that funny?

I love how something as huge and seemingly permanent in the landscape as a mountain range knows how to play hide-&-seek with me.

What about you?  Does anything in your world play games with your perception?  Do you like to play along?

Namasté, y’all.

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