The View from My Car

Tonight I was driving along in my car and I saw many things that made it a fabulous evening for a drive:

driving west while the sun is setting causes for more than an hour of beautiful colors swirling together in the sky, a straight row of five weeping willows whose leaves have turned a rich shade of yellow, fires burning and smoke billowing creating a much missed smell of fall, crossing bridges over the Illinois River and seeing barges putt through the dark waters, the brown corn stalks standing straight and tall while lining the roads, the majestic and somewhat surreal windmills as the giant blades turned in the evening air