That the Wall Street Journal announced the new Rolling Stones studio album in its Business and Finance section surely says something about the world today… but I’m not sure what. I leave the analysis as an exercise to the reader.

Photoblog challenge day 7: the panorama from the summit at Hanging Rock State Park earlier this summer.

wide view of a green valley with low mountains beyond, low clouds in a blue sky

Photoblog challenge day 6. These arrived as a gift packaged with a kitchen tool I bought, but when I opened the package, the first two jellybeans I ate were bubble gum flavor… and so what might have been a pleasant surprise proved only another deep well of sadness.

a small packet of assorted flavor Jelly Belly brand jellybeans

Photoblog challenge day 5: forest reflected in Falls Lake.

line of trees on far shore of lake and reflected in water

Photoblog challenge day 4: variegated orange marigolds with bumblebee photobomb

I am going to take the fish in a barrel approach to today’s photoblog challenge and call this precious.

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Photoblog challenge day 2: A buildup of moss and leaf litter somewhere on Occaneechee Mountain.

Photoblog challenge day 1: abstract.

This week on The Road to Jockey’s Ridge, I learn some geology, explore a small patch of prairie, and meet a strange old man who tells me the legend of Sisyphus of the Eno.