There was joy in my heart when I saw the location for this past weekend’s Cars and Coffee meet: Hacklebarney State Park! This is the place that I made a (very) short film in just a few months ago in the dead of winter. It’s just as gorgeous in the summertime. Unlike in the winter, though, I didn’t need to crab-walk down a quarter-mile of sheet ice on the trails.

I arrived at 6:30 AM, caught a few frames of the park’s water features under my favorite light, got a decent workout, and finally, arrived on the scene of a great car meet. Saturday mornings don’t get much better for me, folks.