The road ahead was curiously baren, gray + (thankfully) simply wet.
The landscape was breath-taking – ice coated the trees, which created a picturesque scene from some winterwonderland, like those so incredibly described by C.S. Lewis in The Chronicals of Narnia. The ice was the only remnants of the wintery front that passed through the night before.
This morning, the sky opened up + gorgeous rays of sun shined through + reflected off of big puffy clouds above as well as the icy tree limbs below + all around for as far as the eye could see. The lack of heavy traffic made for a surprisingly peaceful + surreal trek from State College to NYC; the only thing man-made ahead (besides the road + traffic signs) was a single big-rig several hundred feet ahead in the distance.
This was Day 3 of my On The Vine Creative: Living The Dream Tour (aka: OTV LTD). OTV [was] my freelance business + I [was] an advocate, writer, designer, crafter + russophile (as well as principal).
That small business + I had both undergone a momentous metamorphosis in the two months before this trek in early February.
