I look through the standard websites to pull together thoughts for tonight. Nothing jumps out at me. Outside, the wind howls and the temperature drops. It reminds me of my drive to work this morning.

I was struck by the lighting and recorded my thoughts:

It was as if someone had put a highway
Through a Hudson River School painting.
The sunlight sideways striking
The brown and orange trees
Beneath the purple, blue, and gray sky.

I look at Various Hudson River School Paintings online. I read a little about the transcendentalists and drift off into Walt Whitman.

What can we take from these people into the twenty-first century?