Silver Linings

    As every dark cloud has them, the objective is to see past the gloom to that silver lining. 

    On the drive from home to the clients home on Lake Huron(about 70 miles), I was simply observing the scenery going by when it hit me.  There are a few silver linings to the dark clouds that seemed to smother  my weekend.

    First, when I got off the expressway to head across the state, I glanced over at a gas station to check prices-$3.95!  That's the first time I've seen it under $4.00 in weeks-meaning that the trips to this client just got a little bit cheaper.  Yay!

    I'd driven past several homes that had vegetable gardens visible from the road.  Fenced in to keep the deer out, they were green and lush, obviously well cared for.  They brought back memories of the gardens I grew every summer in Ohio.  I smiled.  There were farms with acres and acres of corn, wheat and soybeans.  Some huge dark blue silos at one farm, horses and cows just going about their business as cars go whizzing by.  There was a little roadside park with a river down in a gulley.  I didn't know they still existed(the parks).  There was this little cafe-closed now for who knows how many years, but the sign is still there.  A big 55 with the words double nickel written down the outside edges.  Clever name-as the highway it's on is M-55.  There were some old abandoned roadside vegetable stands-one, Sam's corn, looked like a good wind would knock it ovder.  Garage and yard sale signs populated several intersections, and a cute little sign advertising "The Little Red Craft Shack stands on tall posts, pointing the way.  I saw Sarah's Bloomers and drove through Reno(township),  I passed The Green Turtle, not "a" green turtle, but a lounge. 

    Just a glimpse of the sights along your average Michigan highway.  So familiar, yet so individual.  Oh and one more little silver lining?  I was traveling east so the setting sun was behind me and not shining in my eyes.  B-)  this is a sunglasses smiley! 

   I'm glad the weekend is behind me.  Now I can concentrate on other things, but I wrote this entry on Friday night and just wanted to share my observations on life, from the weekend that had all the dark clouds.  (actually it's been pretty sunny and not too hot!)

                                  ~Thanks For Stopping By~