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Friday, January 10, 2020
First Lines Friday...
“The cow-speckled landscape is an ashy grey color. I am driving through flat pastureland on a rough county road that is mostly dirt, the protective gravel long ago squirted into ditches by speeding ranch trucks. Stiffened tire tracks veer off the road, through mud and into the sagebrush, the marks of someone with back pasture business.”
... Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx
I can't say much more than Annie Proulx's writing creates a beautiful landscape made up of words...
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