Another excellent shot and stunning descriptive skills. It is a rare gift, permit me to say, to be able to paint reality with the power of the pen and the ink of photography.

• Lesson learned – If you have plenty of time, take the road less travelled. You’ll see more color and more beauty.*

The admonition you gave above, quite well-received, is similar to that in the last stanza of Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken. Hear Frost:

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Ps: I have no choice than to one day travel a road either less travelled by or not taken at all; one can only hope not to find some time killers, like you did, or something worse: a charging buffalo or even a harmless lion.