About

I started this blog on impulse because I wanted to write. I used to write professionally, mostly technical stuff. I left that behind several years ago and came to miss the pleasure and discipline of putting thoughts into words. I satisfy that jones here. I write at least once a week, and my favorite topics are:

• Faith, joy, and personal growth. In my life I’ve struggled and fallen. At bottom, I met God, and realized he’s always had my back. Learning to trust him and rely on him has opened me up to great joy as I travel down the road.
• My joys. One of my chief joys is to drive two-lane highways, taking in the vistas and the small towns along the way. There’s plenty of nature and history to see. I especially enjoy finding a highway’s earlier path and imagining the time when that path was still vital. I also enjoy collecting vintage cameras and watching vintage television.

I also sometimes tell personal stories and gaze at my navel as bloggers do.

About me: I’m a lifelong Hoosier. Although I grumble heavily through the winters, I would be hard pressed to make anyplace else home. There has simply been too much opportunity for me here!

Photographs: Most of the photographs here are mine. The banner photo, taken in late October, 2006, is along Indiana State Road 47 in Parke County, just east of Turkey Run State Park. The road curves in from the east.

Below, my oldest friend walks along the grass-covered approach to a one-lane bridge that used to carry the Michigan Road across the Tippecanoe River north of Rochester, Indiana.

This bridge carries Old US 31 across the St. Joseph River near Leeper Park in South Bend. I was fortunate to catch it with its lamps still lit as the sun was beginning to rise.

As State Road 135 dipped into a hollow near Bean Blossom, the mist in the air that April morning stayed high, creating a canopy over the road and trees. It lasted just long enough for me to take a couple photos. By the time I got back into my car and drove into this scene, the mist had dissipated.