Another American Adventure: my car

Saturday, September 17, 2011

my car

Did I ever say how much I love my "new" car (2008 Toyota Yaris)? So much that John ordered these super cool Thunder Blue seat covers. Now Jubilee and I will really be surfing the highways! (By the way, I get more than 44 miles per gallon with this car. The gas tank only holds a little more than 10 gallons, but the extra mileage makes up for it.)

2 comments:

Sally ClaySeptember 17, 2011 at 1:36 PM
Love the seatcovers, and Jubilee, too.
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beth cioffolettiSeptember 17, 2011 at 2:42 PM
she looks like she's surfing, doesn't she?
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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.