Lilies

Is it the sandy soil that means certain plants that I have tried unsuccessfully to grow in Illinois seem to flourish here? Tiger lilies and their various Asiatic and trumpet versions abound and each one amazes and delights me.

Lost

Sometimes Jennifer plots me a route that takes longer than what I would have planned using a map. One day recently I was trying to get her to help me get to someplace faster and it took, oh, about an hour longer. Some of that was because I had to stop and take pictures of the new-to-me landscape, and part of that was because some of the roads were quite narrow and winding. Ah, but what is time against views like this?