L'aura del Campo

Rimrocking through North Dakota on February 1st.

It is sunny and inviting outside. I've boiled my Turkish coffee and feel somewhat awake. I took a nap yesterday, then went to bed early.

Sunset over Bismarck:



Rolling thru North Dakota on Rimrock Trailways:

Rattle of bus, sound and smell of an 18 month old, sticky cloy of piss on the window vent, beige cattails sticking up through light snow, beige-white of rolling landscape, grey-white of empty sky, puff of air from the window vent, the road signs flashing by... soft rumble of a plow, a field of withered cornstalks, dark gash of open water, buffalo (white on brown), flat pan of a frozen lake, purple tarp over a truck of logs, ducks.

We watched the 1969 movie Pain Your Wagon from Jamestown west. This is the video of "The Call the Wind Mariah":



Same music with a PA slideshow, has the words:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCgLNuXSaSc&feature=related

A useful quote that may prompt you to write: "Smoke may burn your eyes, but only people can make you cry."

A prompt: "Oscar the Death Cat" or the cancer-sniffing dog or the fish that predicts earthquakes... Sci-fi or fact, gotta love cats!

Oscar: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/od_nm/us_books_cat

Montana: 28º and rays of gold in Missoula at 10 am.

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