Drying Out

I, Bernie Harberts, did not use generative AI to write or illustrate this article. Spell check and grammar check, yes. AI, no.

Surely as we walk toward the setting sun, the land is drying out.

The mid-West flooded this spring but now the rain has stopped. The mud is drying and cracking. Cracking like alligator skin under our hoofs and boots.

It’s drying out in Nebraska. How will the road ahead look?

Post Script

These photos were taken outside Hazard, Nebraska. Since then, we have moved on to western Nebraska. We’re closing in on the Wyoming border. Just as sensed, the land is getting dryer.

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