I spent yesterday’s lunch break out adventuring in the Autumn sunshine. The wind was enough to knock you down but the sky and puffy clouds more than made up for it. While many trees were bare, what remained of the foliage was lovely.  I wasn’t exactly equipped for adventure in my ballet flats with no socks (what was I thinking?) and no camera, just a phone, but made the best of it anyway.

My first destination was the Mt Olive Covered Bridge. The road was routed around this bridge many years ago and the county used grant funding to rehab it a while back. It’s one of just four left in our county and the only one that’s painted green. Vandals are starting to do harm here again. It had been reasonably clean but there’s graffiti again. For the life of me, I’ll never understand the compulsion to damage public property, especially historic sites.

Then I went up the hill to Mt. Olive Church. It’s a simple country church but that’s what makes it one of my favorites in this community. There’s beauty in the modest simplicity.

I haven’t been inside for years and would love to take my camera inside one day. 

When I was a kid, I visited the cemetery with my grandparents a few times on Memorial Day. Some of our people are buried here and they always decorated the graves. It’s peaceful up on that hill and very pretty. Not a bad place to be buried, if you like to think about that sort of thing.

If time allowed I would have wandered the cemetery a little more. Alas, the clock was ticking and work was calling my name. On the way back it occurred to me that I should do this sort of thing more often. Lunch is often reserved for reading or running errands. Sometimes I just play on Facebook or Pinterest to kill time. Why wouldn’t I go for a little adventure when the sun shines and there are things to be seen?