the bend in the road

Ballycastle, 2007

"I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return. When I left... my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend. I wonder how the road beyond it goes--what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows--what new landscapes--what new beauties--what curves and hills and valleys further on."

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables