Miata Roads

Our Miata sports car is featured in my Amish-Country Mysteries, and in those stories, the professor’s wife Caroline Branden drives her Miata over the blacktopped and gravel lanes of Holmes County, Ohio.  My wife Madonna and I do that too, as often as we can arrange it, and the curves and hills of the countryside offer up great sport for the little two-seater.  Amish kids are often drawn to the car, and sometimes adults are too.  They seem to take an interest in motorcars, even though they know that they will likely never own or drive one themselves.  So when we pass a softball game at one of the parochial schools, or drive around a buggy, we always wave.  And we often get a friendly wave in return.  Summer and autumn days in Holmes County are custom made for this type of trip, and every turn in the road delivers something new to see.  When we got to this bend in the road, I stopped, backed up, and took this picture, because it so much captures the essence of autumn touring in Holmes County.  I think these trees were singing gloriously that day.  I know the Miata was.