Creepy.  Seriously.  I mean, I know that this is a nature strip that needs to feature all manner of flora and fauna, and that the humans only feature in ways described as incidental, but it looks like they have been walking for days, to the land of the jack-rabbit and Ruffed-grouse…

“Sure Rusty, I can help, because you see I am friendless too.  I thought being a newspaper man would make me all the friends I would ever need, but it seems that no one ever wants to talk to me, since they are afraid that their words and their sorry little lives will somehow make it into print.  You have no idea how nice it is to be greeted so warmly by someone, but not just anyone, by you…”  ewwww…