Melancholy & Meditations

Coming home from vacation can be a let-down (and in some ways a relief to be back in your own bed!) But I came home with a sense of wishing I'd had more time to do more things, and more time to spend just lazing around doing nothing. It was a terrific vacation, however, and well worth the time and long drive. And nothing to say I can't do it again in October (My fav time of the year!)

After getting caught up on chores yesterday, this morning I got up, determined to enjoy the gorgeous, cool and very unusual weather we're having here. I dashed to the bank, then over to the local Water Preserve for a nature walk. I enjoy walking in this park, there is always something different to see, and hear. So many dragonflies were out early this morning; I paused at the water's edge to watch the birds finding food and heard a croaking bullfrog; the egrets were calling out in their high squeaking squawks to one another; and there was the usual duck quacking. Further around the next corner, two hummingbirds, one quite smaller than the other, so perhaps a mother and baby. The smaller one seemed to have trouble controlling its flight as it tried to stay still and feed off a flowering plant. I watched a father teaching his young son to fish, heads bent together as they watched the line land in the pond.

There's nothing like a solitary walk in the early morning hours, no road noise, no people conversations, just you and nature; listening to wind sighing through the trees, your footsteps crunching on the gravel path the only manmade sound in your ears. Tis the best kind of meditation for me ... feeling at one with nature.

Quiet, peaceful HUGS to everyone!!