Guess who's birthday is February 9th?

You guessed it... ME! I'm 30-something and still somewhat unsure if I like this whole 'growing older' crap. But hey... I might as well go with it. Eh?

And a February 9th birthday makes me an Aquarius, and Aquarians are supposed to be the mystics, idealists, reformers, independent, and humanitarians of the Zodiac. "It is a sign that is forward thinking and non conformist. Aquarians balk at tradition and celebrate originality and individuality. Aquarians will rebel against repression of the human spirit or repression of the individual. They're free-thinking, curious, restless, and information junkies." - I don't know how much of that is true, but man does it sound good! And I'm in excellent company. Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Charles Lindbergh, and Virginia Woolf all share the Aquarius sign.

Today I went for a short adventure, one that starts at a crossroads in which you usually turn right and this time, you turn left. That's what I did today. Out of nowhere, I turned left, onto a road I've never traveled before. I had to see where it ended. I HAD to do something outside my normal routine, and turning left seemed like the easiest way to accomplish that. The left-turn road ended at a familiar place, which was both comforting and disappointing, because then I knew that my short-lived mini adventure was over. But along the way I saw some beautiful farms and landscapes. Here's a sampling of what I saw: