Monday, December 20, 2010

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

 Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), Juvenile ...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
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5 comments:

  1. Maureen,
    Thanks for the comment. Such a personal little memento to me of Sunday a.m. drives to a nearby teeny church where my husband officiates 2 times a month. It's a ride of no consequence in distance but the time together with only the beauty of the land, the birds, the mountains, neither of us would change a thing and......I let him be the passenger occasionally:)

    xo

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  2. Beautiful picture...nice post.

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  3. Anonymous3:41 PM

    boy, do I agree! JG

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