Traveling Mercies

I’m catching my breath after some 2000 miles on the road in a tight loop from Grand Rapids through West Virginia down to South Carolina and then over to the Flourish conference northeast of Atlanta and up again through Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, the northeast corner of Indiana and back home.  A trip like that in May is a joy: trees in all stages of bloom and leaf, riotous birdlife, thunderstorm fireworks far and near, the freshest, greenest grass of the season, and vistas grand enough to make imprints on the memory with only a few seconds of exposure as I speed past with the cruise set at seventy.  [Tent is my "motel" on Lake Lanier.]