Loss

Baja Sol--formerly Don Pablo's-- was leveled today, to make room for a bank.

The last remaining edge of the Bridge Pointe shopping center was razed soon after I sketched it.  Alegria's has been replaced by Amigos, and the Azteca Grill by the Fiesta Bar and Grill.

In "beating the bounds," we are reminded not only of the gifts, limits, and responsibilities of freedom and stewardship, but also discover what has been lost, and perhaps, replaced--or is in need of repair.

On the road to Holmes County

Fall foliage

Rolling hills, farm buildings

A little wine-tasting tent stood in the drizzle, on the edge of a parking lot in Millersburg.

Fiesta Bar and Grill

Potbelly Redux

"Laissez les bon temps rouler." (Advice from the potato chip bag.)

More on Boundaries

The Rt Reverend Anthony Footit, in "Solomon's Seal," from A Gospel of Wildflowers, 2006, p. 50:

Law places boundaries on behaviour. On the sixth Sunday of Easter it is still customary in some parishes to beat the bounds--to process around the boundaries, and at the same time ask God's blessing on the seeds sown in fields and gardens. Hedges and walls and boundaries help to prevent trespass and acquisitiveness--wanting more than we need. "The law does not change the heart, but it does restrain the heartless" (Martin Luther King).

(The well-known British artist Pat Albeck illustrated Reverend Footit's essays with lovely floral watercolors.)

Dancing hares in September

From southeast.

Summer house