We arrived home late yesterday evening, with a car full of gifts and games, wrapping paper and gift bags, treasures and trinkets, and candy and cheese (oh, so much lovely cheese!). We also ended up with eight pounds of blackberries, courtesy of a sale we stumbled across in Meijer that was too good to pass up, and a wide variety of odd objects discovered at various flea markets on our meandering journey home. We spent two days driving home, setting a leisurely pace that allowed for the acquisition of various odds and ends and a few pauses for milkshakes and sightseeing.
This was one of our last stops, past the Tennessee border, near a town called Bean Station:
We are home again, and the clock is ticking before the spring semester begins. I will shortly find myself buried in grading and parental queries and disciplinary issues and other delights of secondary education. I am not exactly looking forward to this, but at least we have a home, and we are together, and there are pretty things to look at if we drive away from our home for an hour or two.
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