These were taken right outside the town where
Hitchcock filmed "The Birds"
It was beautiful but eerie there. I passed several trees filled
with perched vultures---
I stopped at a little general store to get some batteries,
it was like walking into a weird dusty, mildewy paperback
that had been sitting in
a cardboard box in a basement for 30 years.
Driving on the winding country roads,
I'd look in my rearview mirror and
seemingly,
out of nowhere,
there would be a pick-up truck
riding my ass..
It would get so close I could almost feel
the driver's flannel shirt wearin' breath on my neck.
All this the morning before a 10 day silent seclusion with strangers in the woods...
