Dawn's Pink Northern Light Illuminates Lakes Along Route 55
…" Here and there is a stretch of open water and if you look closely you can see wild ducks at the edge of the cattails. And turtles. . . . There’s a red-winged blackbird. …I whack Chris’s knee and point to it. "What!" he hollers. …"Blackbird!" He says something I don’t hear.” What?" I holler back. …He grabs the back of my helmet and hollers up, "I’ve seen lots of those, Dad!" cold. The blackbirds were gone then. But now in July they’re back and everything is at its alivest and every foot of these sloughs is humming and cricking and buzzing and chirping, a whole community of millions of living things living out their lives in a kind of benign continuum. " NOTE: In the above ZMM passage the Narrator tells us that all this “alive creatures” is good even “benign” which means gentle and kindly. not harmful in effect. In the NEXT photo the Narrator offers an a more troubling viewpoint.
~5 Miles West of Buffalo, MN where the pink northern light of dawn illuminates the lakes along Route 55. My Rand-McNally map shows a major portion of this Minnesota highway as being a "Scenic Route"! Bravo Rand-McNally!! This mapmaker agrees with Pirsig on the Travel Quality of this road! *************************
( Photo = 102-0259 ...... ZMM Page = 003 …… WayPt = -001w)