Driver or Passenger?

Prior to the right turn toward Dayton,

a full stop and careful left check for oncoming traffic

Snow - a quick rear view glance, a break tap re slippery ice

easy negotiation of the smooth curve ahead - attention to oncoming vehicles

Then the highway smoothes and all the view is straight ahead 

Prior to the right turn toward Dayton,

a full stop and careful left check for oncoming traffic

Conditions not one's worry, 

negotiations - out of one's hand

Oncoming traffic of little interest in comparison to

the Blue Mountains topped with snow

Sun barely rising,  pinking the sky with a kiss

Or the damp, ruffled feathers of a hawk atop light pole and/or bare tree

surveying the land for tasty morsels of vole and field mice

 Image by NDomer73 via Flickr

A thought can stray to where the birds spent the night

- certainly not out in the cold

Maybe a barn left thoughtfully vulnerable by a farmer or his wife

Driver or passenger  

keep or give up the control 

whose ride will be remembered, reflected upon, cherished

*Photo Image by NDOMER 73 via Flickr