Archive for August 15th, 2019
5100
Over the 26 days from July 17 through August 11 we drove 5100 miles on a journey that took us as far afield as Toronto and New York. This was a combination trip:
- People, including some I hadn’t seen since 1973.
- Culture, primarily in the form of museums, most of which we got into for free thanks to reciprocal privileges from our membership in Austin’s Blanton Museum.
- Scenic places (had to do at least some nature photography, right?).
On July 17 we made the fatiguing 650-mile push to Memphis. The next morning I photographed a pond along the Austin Peay Highway northeast of Memphis.
Here’s a second view of that pond:
Not long afterwards I stopped at another pond a little further east:
In the shallows of that second pond grew a plant that, because of reflections, seemed to be floating in clouds:
© 2019 Steven Schwartzman