This is a Girlie-on-the-Edge six sentence blog challenge post. The prompt word is journey.
- Covid fatigue; cabin fever; can’t stand it anymore.
- Photo excursion into the Sandhills
- Wind chill minus thirty; twelve inches of show; too cold to get out and walk; wheelbase too low to drive off road.
- North into the teeth of the wind, looking for road kills; photos out the car windows—open of course with wind pouring in.
- Trees clumps of naked grey sticks on a field of white—white earth, white sky.
- Then sun; on Gudmundsen Ranch Road north of Whitman; sunset on Martin Bay—frozen lake stretching as far as the I can see.
I can sense the cabin fever when everything outside is white.
I’ve been suffering from cabin fever since way before everything turned white. My last cabin fever, photo excursion resulted in getting caught in a very bad hail storm. My car now looks like a golf ball. (too old to take to the body shop.)
From the confines of small places to the openness as depicted in your two pictures – what feelings of exhilaration there must be even in the frigid cold.
I can’t imagine the feeling, driving in such wide open spaces. Beautiful.
It’s a pretty wonderful feeling any time, but right now, after a year of lock-down. Wos!
that’s Wow!
What a beautiful landscape! It looks so clean and unsullied. Way too cold for me though.
You know, I used to work in way colder temperatures than that occasionally, But my skin has thinned so much with age, I’m not sure I could sustain it very long.
Great six
thanks
I enjoyed your Six, and so good to hear your narration again. Loved the lines: “naked grey sticks on a field of white—white earth, white sky.” and “North into the teeth of the wind”.
Thank you. I fear the like about the wind’s teeth is a bit of a cliche–at keast in my part of the world, but it certainly fits.
Brrr! I understand the need to roll down the window in order to get the perfect photo, but I hope you had an excellent heater to warm you up again. I had to google Gudmundsen Ranch. Such an impressive terrain and wildlife!
Naked – such a perfect adjective …
I do have an excellent heater, and I learned a long time ago that you can expose yourself with very little in the way of clothing, even barefoot, for short periods of time without really feeling the cold.