It's Going To Be A Long Political Season...

No high-rises,
no high blood pressure,
no nothing!

Was riding back from the North Carolina coast last week, doing my best to avoid the red, white, and blues of the interstates.  It was hard to leave. North Carolina beaches retain their low-key, kick off your sandals, family-oriented atmosphere - still remarkably, an "undiscovered" jewel on the Atlantic Seaboard.  Dangerously easy to "get use to"...

  Delight full....

Driving the "back roads" of rural, eastern N.C. remains a journey into the past, when everything was simpler, everything was local, and everything was slower. Pines and pastures, families and farms, small wood and brick churches with soaring steeples - and full pews every Sunday.  One, St. Delight UMC, has always beckoned to me...

Folks living "out in the country" still take their politics "serious" and the 2016 Presidential campaign is already in full swing according to the hand-lettered signs posted in several fields. My two favorites were...

"N.C. Environmentalists - You Betcha We're for Sarah Palin! 

We Support Arrested Development!"

... and on the Republican side....

"Vote for Monica Lewinsky's Former Boyfriend's Current Wife in 2016!"

Sling shot...

It had been raining a good bit last week in N.C. and there was a lot of mud in the fields; but even so, not sure there will be enough to go around....  it's going to be a long, long campaign!