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Drying Out

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

Mule Brick resting on dry cracked minimum maintenance road outside Hazard, Nebraska during cross-country mule ride
Drying out: Brick takes a break from walking up a minimum maintenance road outside Hazard, Nebraska. A few weeks ago, this road would have been a muddy mess. Now it crunches underfoot.

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.

Three shades of grey cracked dry mud on Nebraska road outside Hazard during cross-country mule ride
3 shades of grey
Cracked dry earth on Nebraska road outside Hazard showing drought conditions during Bernie Harberts mule ride west

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