This shot was taken somewhere along the Ledo Road in Kachin State, Myanmar in the early morning before the fog had lifted as we were heading out for a day of running inventory transects and collecting rattan specimens (see Hukaung Valley Rattan Survey). Thought this was a fitting image to illustrate starting the weekend, or starting the Spring Practice Period, or starting a new project on rattans in Laos, or starting to read Wolf Totem by Lü Jiamin (thx, Jeff), or any of the other beginnings in my life right now.