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Just standin’ in the middle of a country road and watchin’ the sun set.
Boy howdy, I’ll tell y’all somethin’… country roads sure ain’t what they used to be. The posted speed limit on this particular stretch of two-lane blacktop is 60 miles per hour. So here I am, just over a blind hill, in the middle of the road, playing Frogger, while trying to get a photograph with my trusty camera of this beautiful sunset as cars whizzed by at close to 80 (it is Texas, after all).
I thought for sure I was fixin’ to end up as road-kill more than once as I jumped out of the way of swerving, honking, and bird-flipping, country-wanna-be’s who just moved out of the big city and into the country with their fancy cars and fast-lane attitudes. Bless their little hearts.
But, I’ll tell ya what… now-a-days it sure ain’t easy for a hard-working photographer to stand alone in the middle of a dark and unlit road at dusk to get a good shot. Sheesh… People drive too dang fast.
Lon Casler Bixby is a professional photographer and published author in various genres: Fiction, Poetry, Humor, Photography, & Comic Books.
You can see some of his photography here — www.whileyouweresleeping.photography/ and here — www.neoichi.com/.
See his writing here — www.amazon.com/author/loncaslerbixby/.