#draem

It's a cool evening, or that weird time between sunset and night where things are just lit by a glowing sky without sunlight. I'm walking along the bottom of a nearly-dry riverbed. Well, a river where I live, but probably just a wide stream for anyone else. I alternate steps between soft sand and clear, shallow stretches of water.

I come up to a bridge. It's darker underneath it but not enough to avoid. But I almost trip on something in the sand. It's a chunk of rusty metal that is sticking up at an odd angle. It's a disk. A rusty metal disc. I poke at it and it's solidly embedded in the sand. It reminds me of a brake drum from a really old piece of trucking equipment. I kick at it a little and it doesn't move at all. It seems to be attached to something. Could there be an entire truck buried under there? Some kind of cargo trailer maybe?

I set up a small video camera on the embankment next to the bridge and start record as I dig around the metal part. No matter how much digging I do, I can't seem to uncover much more of it than the same disc. By this time I have managed to secure a tow truck, too. I park it on the embankment next tot eh bridge, careful not to be too close to the edge, then set a towline down to the metal in the sand. Maybe this will do it.