It was a gray, raw day along Piney Woods Church Road, on the afternoon before a storm named Pax (ironically) is slated to hit the Atlanta area with perhaps half an inch of icing and then an inch or two of sleet or snow. An earlier spell of light rain left a few water droplets scattered on the branches of shrubs and vines. I took quite a few photographs on my way toward Hutcheson Ferry Road, some abstracts and others close-ups of multi-colored water oak leaves, gray-green lichens, and rusty-orange fungi. On my way home, I stopped to glance at the ruts near the intersection with Rico Rd. A leafy vine growing next to the rut was reflected in the silt-laden water. The result is evocative of Japanese art — a visual haiku lying in a muddy rut on a gravel road in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia.
