Five in the morning and snow was already coming down. Half an inch on the road, more coming. We decided to go.

Snowed all the way through Georgia. The South under it looks wrong — Spanish moss beaded with ice, red clay frozen hard. Lunch at a Cracker Barrel near Auburn, Alabama, the place full of AU students treating it like a snow day. The other side of the highway slowed for an accident we'd already passed. Montgomery appeared through clearing clouds. Dinner at AYA — Southern elevated, West African and Caribbean in the bones. BBQ oyster mushroom, grits, cooked greens. The right end to that day.