5:17 am… Venturing to Urbana

5:17 am... I'll be venturing to Urbana in a couple of hours to spend a few days making prints with a friend. I love driving old Route 45 through all the little forgotten towns that now serve as hospice for old sagging motels, crumbling grain silos, and forgotten cars - you can still hear that train whistle blowing across the buckskin brown fields where life once lived...