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September 28, 2007

Too Hot to Handle

Anyone considering a trip to Austin today should be forewarned that it is really hot here. To which the natives counter, "But it's a dry heat." Rubbish, I say. Saunas are dry but they are still hot. Death Valley is dry. Volcanos are dry, dammit.

But I am in Austin. We woke so early yesterday morning to get me to the airport in Baltimore on time. One of the virtues of early rising (perhaps the only virtue) is getting to see the low light of morning, especially when driving across the Bay Bridge.

One of the liabilities of waking early is not having the wherewithal to think through fashion choices in a clear and cogent way upon waking, a condition which forces one to make a last-minute curbside shirt change just outside the Southwest gates.

And when Robbi is armed with the new camera, such moments get documented.

We are pleased to have the new camera and hope that you are satisfied with the image quality. Notice the work of the wide-angle lens. While we were cameraless we kept seeing beautiful, wonderful, strange things in the world that we had no ability to capture. The best of these was the writing we saw on the back of a large, lumbering truck of some sort on the way back from Baltimore last Wednesday. The writing, in a curly font that had clearly been painstakingly applied by hand, was as follows:

Hauling it all, just God and me.

I'd rather have shown you a picture of this wonderful item of being, but unfortunately, the moment passed and now is gone. Robbi and I wondered for a while who made the decision to apply the letters and what exactly the author had in mind in terms of message. Some questions are best left unpursued. And, painful as it may seem, perhaps some moments are best left unphotographed.

Like this one, maybe:

Posted by bogenamp at September 28, 2007 09:43 AM