The Mysterious Golden Spires
For decades, I’ve marveled at the “golden sticks” protruding out of the tree line bordering Interstate 495 (Washington beltway). Those sticks (as I would learn embarrassingly late in life) are called spires. Spire: A tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, typically a church tower. Anyway, I wandered off the beltway and found myself purposely lost…
