I spotted this empty sign on a drive south of Bismarck yesterday afternoon. I risked getting the truck stuck in the mud as I eased off the roadway into the ditch, determined to get the shot. I eased slowly onto the grass, bolted out and slogged over to the fence, and did my photographic duty. I dashed back to the truck and started rolling again before the tires could sink into the mud, and eased back out onto the road as if nothing had happened. Then I got to home satisfied that my “long way home” travel route had paid off.