What enthralling word pictures you shared! Over the years I paddled my canoe hundreds of miles. (I have the odometer reading to prove it! Somewhere.) So I could easily put myself in your place, hearing birds and seeing other wildlife along the banks of my favorite rivers.
Alligators? Probably not in the Fox River, but quite common here in Fla. A healthy respect for them prevented calamity while allowing communion with those ancient reptiles.
Your willingness to attend to the “is” of that day on the water, despite seeing no cranes or egrets or turtles, yielded other connections that day with Nature. The phrase “communing with Nature” for me constitutes a Holy occasion. Always a cause for rejoicing.
I can recall that day like it was yesterday! The frustration of computer gremlins snatching my story, the realization that stepping away was the best course of action, the river… which always delights.
Holy indeed.
Can you believe that after extending a bird buffet nearly a week ago… I don’t have any takers?
Puzzling with the birds ignoring the buffet? Do you ever put out suet cakes? Our hot months don’t work well but the rest of the year suet is a “hot commodity.” 😁
What enthralling word pictures you shared! Over the years I paddled my canoe hundreds of miles. (I have the odometer reading to prove it! Somewhere.) So I could easily put myself in your place, hearing birds and seeing other wildlife along the banks of my favorite rivers.
Alligators? Probably not in the Fox River, but quite common here in Fla. A healthy respect for them prevented calamity while allowing communion with those ancient reptiles.
Your willingness to attend to the “is” of that day on the water, despite seeing no cranes or egrets or turtles, yielded other connections that day with Nature. The phrase “communing with Nature” for me constitutes a Holy occasion. Always a cause for rejoicing.
I can recall that day like it was yesterday! The frustration of computer gremlins snatching my story, the realization that stepping away was the best course of action, the river… which always delights.
Holy indeed.
Can you believe that after extending a bird buffet nearly a week ago… I don’t have any takers?
Oh! Cardinal, grosbeak, goldfinch, chickadee… c’mon over!!!
Puzzling with the birds ignoring the buffet? Do you ever put out suet cakes? Our hot months don’t work well but the rest of the year suet is a “hot commodity.” 😁
No suet this time of year.
Winter, yes! But even in Wisconsin it melts in summer.