First, I went to the Mini Cooper Center to get Blue's tires checked for travel. In the waiting room, I looked around for something to draw--and voila! I spied two vending machines with a big fake coin on top, a mop between.
When Charles, the service manager, came to tell me the tires were all set, he said, "Wow! I love your drawing!"
I must confess: I was thrilled! He wanted to make a copy, have me sign it! Talk about a burst of encouragement for a novice drawer!
Charles, a writer with a book coming out next month, moved to San Antonio from Lilburn, Georgia--just a few miles from my destination, Lawrenceville.
With Charles' encouragement echoing in my ears, I drove all day like a real artist, looking at everything as potential material. The clouds were heavy and grey as I drove out of San Antonio, but soon the sky cleared and it was a beautiful day all day to Shreveport.
I stopped at Naeglin's Bakery in New Braunfels for bear claws, then stopped briefly in Buda to take pictures in a pumpkin patch.
Cotton fields, long silver trains, scarecrows, barns, and pine trees; a sky with puffy white clouds--the route was painted in all the colors of October, reminiscent of the scarecrow day in Cambria, California, a year ago.
After a delicious Mexican dinner, I drove the last forty miles to Shreveport, singing along with Leonard all the way, loud and proud!
Here are a few of the many scarecrows I photographed in Buffalo, Texas:
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