Eager to See the Sandhill Cranes!
Just three days until my Nebraska adventure! Three! And . . . and, I sold the Cherokee a couple of days ago, so I had the money to buy the telephoto lens I've been drooling over the last four years. Yeah, four years. That's how slow I tend to go when considering buying something. I constantly scrutinize if the money serves a better purpose elsewhere. Like my savings account. With the trip, though, I gave myself the gift of the lens since it will definitely allow me to get better shots of the cranes. Recently, a friend asked me why I chose to make the crane migration a must-do. Honestly, it happened as a result of a book I read: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers. It and Powers' book The Overstory have been the best two books I've read in a very long time. Both are just absolutely beautiful. Seriously beautiful. The Echo Maker weaves together the connection between memory (rather the loss thereof) and the cranes flying the same route every year. Powers creates a ric...