Eerie morning

Eerie is one of those words that always looks spelled wrong. Anyway.

This morning, as I was coming in to work, all the snow was melting, making it pretty foggy. Over by Corporate America, they have these huge open fields where it's probably supposed to be soothing "green space" or whatever during the summer. Most of the time, it's just a major grass buffet for the highly overpopulated Canadian goose clan. The last couple of weeks, of course, it's been blanketed with this snow, creating white, pristine fields.

Today, though, it's all melting, creating an even denser pocket of fog around good ole' corporate America. It was so strange. As I turned it, I realized it was like heading into a bright white tunnel. I couldn't see the guard station or even the curve in the road. Made it look like there was nothing but this little patch of road and no one around for miles except me. Very abandoned feeling. The little saplings they've planted along the drive appeared out of nowhere as I continued on my way--like black sticks stuffed into the ground by a giant unseen hand--the fog hiding them until the last second. The odd contrast between a young tree and the sense of abandonment surrounding it created the feeling that someone had taken care enough to plant the things but then that person or persons got sucked up into the nothingness before they could see the trees reach fruition. When I reached the parking area, I could see cars fading into the nothingness, but no buildings or people. It was like everyone had come to work and just disappeared. Along with the building. But the cars in the lot had been left untouched. Very eerie.

Then, of course, I got close enough to see the building and the illusion was spoiled. But it was fun and kind of creepy there for a minute : )