This is a road where I often walk, near my camp. The backroads around there are full of wonders--eccentric-looking houses, abandoned farmhouses, old cabins, fields and meadows, all manner of wild beasts, birds, deeps woods, the old machinery and detritus of the oil age, and antique cars rusting beneath the trees... I saw a fisher-cat crossing this road in front of me once in broad daylight. We are living in times when those in power care about nothing but power. Natural beauty and art are not priorities except insofar as they enhance a person's power or make a rich person even richer. For that reason, I've bought season tickets to an early music concert series in Pittsburgh. I'm also playing my own musical instrument more often and reaching for all the beauty I can find in the world around me. For a link to some dramatic photos of the Dolly Sods Wilderness in West Virginia, click HERE.
