Thoughts while and from a morning walk.

Mornings
July 6, 2010


Mornings, after several days of rain, all my world smells so fresh and clean and all the leaves are a vibrant green.
As I walked this morning under cloudy overcast skies, I glanced up and much to my surprise there was a beautiful rainbow in all is magnificent glory stretching across the horizon. No, not one but two! Now that is something to see.
It took me back many years to when I was a small child and Mom would be reading the story about Noah and the flood. She would tell us how after the water receded and everyone left the ark that God sent a sign that he would never again flood the world. That sign was a glorious rainbow.
We learn many things as we grow older and one is that a rainbow is the refraction of light off of water crystals, but still it is God given. This also reminded me of a few years ago when I traveled to the state of Kentucky and at the falls on the Columbia River in the middle of the night with a full moon , off the top of the falls appeared a Moon bow. Stunning to see at night time.
There are so many things in this world that we overlook or just do not see as we are to busy. It only takes a fraction of a second to catch things you may never see again. As again this morning, what I thought was a small rabbit hoping across the road about 20 feet in front of me. To my surprise, it jumped on a tree and ran up it. It was a baby squirrel without a tail. Have never seen that before. But again just a matter of a few seconds and its gone.
Nature is such a wonderful thing and yet most of us ignore it day after day.
Have you ever tried to photograph a butterfly? It flits from flower to flower and if you’re lucky and looking, you may even find a bee to photograph. Maybe some ants feeding on the nectar or an inch worm slowly making it’s way over a leaf. Possibly catch that dragonfly that’s been evading you.
Nature is like that. It goes on constantly and just doesn’t wait for you to point your camera lens at it. You have to go after it. It may take minutes, hours or even days to get the right “poise” you are looking for but it will come.
It’s like life isn’t it? Life just doesn’t stop and let you adjust your lens to capture the moment. You need to thoroughly know your equipment and how to use it to get the most out of life. There is no going back to yesterday when you said the wrong thing.
And when you sit down to jot down what you saw this morning on your walk you certainly didn’t envision you sitting there for 30 minutes or so writing down other things that just jump into your mind while writing. But isn’t it nice that you do that? Now you have other things that have been stored away in your head that are now on paper for others to hopefully enjoy and maybe understand and if really lucky they will sit down and do the same thing.
Who knows, I may have caused a budding writer to finally sit down and start that best seller.
I hope so!