A Momentous Walk through the Parking Lot
Photo taken at Shaw Nature Reserve, Missouri, 2010 by the author As I walked across the grocery store parking lot after work today, I looked contentedly up to the blue sky filled with enormous white clouds. I love the clouds in the midwest. I love that it RAINS here and that even if it doesn't rain, there can be days with massive meandering clouds slowly making their way across the heavens. In the evenings, these clouds are lit from behind by a pink and purple sunset filtered through golden sunlight. Rippling clouds are blazoned by a fiery red in the sun's full morning fury. Every place I have lived has its own unique beauty and I appreciated the East Coast, South West, South East, but there is something about the midwest that resonates with me the most. Since moving to St. Louis, I have often looked back at living in Tucson with a sense of haziness and distaste, like I simultaneously feel as if I had never really lived there (it was all an uncomfortable dream that I...