Some Days You're the Pigeon

… and some days you’re the statue. Yesterday I was the statue. I wrote this post stuck in the Atlanta airport, a consequence of a weather hold causing a 2-hour ground delay in San Antonio, which in turn caused me to miss my connecting flight to Baltimore. What’s worse, I couldn’t get a rebooking before tonight at 9:20 pm!
There is a silver lining to this cloud… my daughter Jennifer came to get me. She lives in Macon, a law student. So bonus! I get to spend some time with her. But negative… she has to study. And my bags are checked to BWI, so… I needed to buy another toothbrush! This isn’t turning out the way I had pictured it. But life can be like that. Nature can be unfriendly… sometimes downright lethal. We should never forget we are a PART of nature, not APART from nature. So I’ll post some pix of my Florida trip and try to relax. The picture you see here is, I believe, a black mangrove. In the lower left corner you can see some of its adventitious roots (think they're called pnuemophores?) that stick up to provide the plant with oxygen. I took this photo just after crossing the Tampa Skyway bridge.