This week John, author of the site, Journeys with Johnbo, leads the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, choosing the topic flights of fancy. I was stumped and ready to bow out of this one until I realized how easy this one could be for me.
My flight of fancy has been the road. The road; cobbled roads; dirt roads; highways; country roads; farm roads; busy roads; lonely roads. Roads have led me to places that I've dreamed of seeing and places that I never dreamed existed.
"The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can," ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Roads have carried me to interesting and beautiful places, but the road itself possesses its own singular beauty and character.
A road less travelled. Saxeville, Wisconsin
It's the road that's allowed me to experience places of matchless grandeur and beauty and to share them with my wife. If not for roads I would have never experienced the twin pleasures of viewing nature's handiworks and Cora's joy and awe.
I don't know which was more beautiful, the Black Hills or Cora's awe in seeing them.
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