Flowers and Traffic

When I traveled by bus on Friday--a national holiday--to visit friends on the east coast, the highway traffic was very bad . . . it took 5 and 1/2 hours to complete what should have been a 3 hour trip.

I had known it might be bad; after all, it was a 3-day weekend at the end of summer break for many university students (and others).

Yet it was nice to get out into the countryside and to visit friends . . .