My new friend, Eloise

  "The words were still clear on the thick yellow page but the paper crumbled like bread and a bakery smell rose in her nostrils. Words surely have meanings, she thought, and there is my trouble. Something happens to words coming to me from other people. Something happens to my words. They do not seem worth uttering.
  "People don't mean what they say. Words often mean their opposites.
  "If a person says to you: I hate to tell you this, but...she doesn't hate to tell you. She likes to tell you. This is a good place to make a new start with words."  Walker Percy, The Second Coming

Badlands...again and again forever and always

Soundtrack.

We can all be free/
Maybe not with words/
Maybe not with a look/
But with your mind/

Cat Power, "Maybe Not"

Glacier Nat'l Park

I hear the mountains are doing fine / The morning glories are on the vine / And the dew is falling / And the ducks are calling / Yes, I got mine. - Neil Young, "Motion Pictures"

Bitterroot

Franconia

"Each person you come to is a different mirror. And since you're just another person like them, maybe you're just another mirror too, and there's no way of knowing whether your own view of yourself is just another distortion." Robert Pirsig, Lila

The Green Line

"I wish I had the voice of everything.
To scream the animals,
To scream the earth,
To scream the stars out of our universe.
To scream at all back into nothingness:
To scream the feeling till there's nothing left"
-Angel Olsen "Stars"

Veering off the road for an impromtu hike at Lake Rebecca

"...When you travel a path and note that another path breaks away to one side at say a 30-degree angle, and then later another path branches away to the same side at a broader angle, say 45-degrees, and another path later at 90 degrees, you begin to understand that there's some point over there that all the paths lead to and that a lot people have found it worthwhile to go that way,...

"...and you begin to wonder if perhaps this isn't the way you should go too." --Robert Pirsig

SOME POINT OVER THERE.

Hyundai!; or, Pictures of Plants, Flowers, and Other Things