Rock ledge, Bell

This image is descriptive in more ways than one, although I didn't know it at the time. It's a shot of a nice gneiss (sorry about that double... the words are pronounced the same way) outcrop that I found in the Bell Cedar Swamp refuge off the trail on a chilly walk, and the "on the rocks" title didn't turn out to be an indication of solidity. Rather it summed up what would, I have to now admit—I'm writing this more than 10 days after this picture was taken—happen in the future: the crashing of this humble blog on the proverbial rocks. The cause was the latest edition of an. alas, still ongoing family crisis that took me offline and was so all-encompassing and exhausting that I got me to thinking that it wasn't wise to continue trying to offer a daily journal. Maybe once a month would be more realistic. But it looks like we've achieved a temporary resolution, so I'm going to attempt to fill in the blanks over the next few days and fill in the missing history, natural and otherwise.