Thursday, October 30, 2014

Hallelujah



Is the Universe answering my prayers, or what? So much further north I would have expected Goshen and environs to be further advanced toward winter, the trees bare, but in fact I saw some of the most gorgeous color I've seen all season today. It was overcast but the quality of light might change the character of the color, but never its depth. Muted is just as good, sometimes better.

Northern Indiana may be flat, but it was once High Forest too, and there are some beautiful old trees in those long settled towns; mature urban growth. It was downright beautiful, never mind the traffic.

Ah, once again, I have so much more to say, but I'm tired. Sweet dreams all.


Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Highway Blues



Past the peak, but still pretty as hell Autumn is beginning to wind down. Halloween is nearly here, many trees are already bare. It's been beautiful but I haven't gotten to enjoy it as much as I'd have liked. The last two years with Stonebelt I spent the vast majority of the fall season shuttling around Southern Indiana. This year we're short on drivers and I've spent a lot of time making deliveries as far away as the western suburbs of Chicago or Stanton Kentucky, running the interstates. The color is still there, of course. It's not like the interstates don't run through the same region, but it's not the same. Even if everywhere I drove was as pretty as Southern Indiana, the way that Stanton is, in the mountains, it's still not the same. You're separated from the landscape by a wide buffer while billboards and development proliferate throughout, not to mention the traffic. I've truly come to despise the interstates. They're a nightmare. There's a lot more that I was going to say but I just got back from a 12 hour trip to Charleston, IL and have to do Goshen, IN in the morning after a 10 hour turn around. Talk at you later.


Monday, October 13, 2014

Fringe Benifits



To think; I get paid to drive around Southern Indiana. Southern Indiana is beautiful. It can be a pleasure to drive its hills at any time of the year but it's especially nice in the autumn, when the trees show their true colors.

Why, I drove back Indiana highways today, and it was beautiful. Highway 3 was closed so I had to detour down highway 203, which is just a little slip of a road, maximum speed limit 45. For several miles it wound through the woods along the bank of a stream. The color on the trees was intense. It had started out rainy but for this part of the trip the sun came back out. Let me repeat, it was beautiful.

Of course I would rather have been in a sports car rather than a heavily loaded 18 wheeler. The road was narrow, and unfamiliar which engendered a lot of stress, but overall it was an enjoyable ride. Later it clouded over again and spat rain while I shuttled trailers around between Jeffersonville and New Albany, but on my way home, back out in the country, the sun returned.

I don't always have it so good though, tomorrow I go to Chicago.