The hill pines were sighing,
O'ercast and chill was the day.
A mist in the valley lying,
Blotted the pleasant May. -Robert Bridges, English poet
Photo: Chippewa Lagoon by M Wild Hansen
Photo- M Wild Hansen There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore;
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
-Lord Byron
"We all in the same boat, brother. You rock it too far to the right you fall in the waddah, rock it too far to the left you fall in the same waddah and it's just as wet on both sides." -Huddie Ledbetter , 1888-1949 (A Blues musician, he called himself Lead Belly)