Cool Breezy Beautiful Spring Morning Coffee Muses

Cool winds are swirling about this morning. Swirling is the operative word too. The trees are dancing but my wind gauge is hardly turning while the wind direction vane is spinning like a top… I’ve watched a couple of crows fly over and they looked like they were flying drunk without a designated navigator.

The quiet of my mornings will be interrupted for awhile as site work started next door for the new neighbors house. Dump trucks began arriving to dump their loads at 7:45 and another shows up every few minutes. They were running a Cat bulldozer and a couple of big rollers yesterday raising the building site. They’ll be working for awhile as that site drops off from mine and they have to match my elevation. It’ll be interesting to see how their foundation is built to see if it’s as massive as our own…

It shouldn’t be too many more days until we start to see the grosbeaks and the buntings and the orioles moving through. I’m already spotting mulberries on the trees across the right-of-way. It would be nice to spot a painted hunting again.

I had an email from someone with the National Park Service. They had stumbled across one of my shots of Mabry Mill and want to use it in a new brochure on the Blue Ridge Parkway. I am honored that of all the images of one of the most photographed places on the Parkway they would choose mine. I can’t wait to see the brochure. Maybe it’ll be out by the time we visit this summer.