Needing to stomp off a vile mood due to calling the police at 2 a.m. for some idiotic noisy neighbors, decided it was time to explore Wild Basin. Gorgeous day for a hike; high 70s & breezy.
Saw rainbows dancing about the trail and couldn't figure out from where they were coming and found this odd cage-like structure. My kind of arachnids.
An inviting trailhead.
The gurgle of a creek.
Sweeping vista of newly opened leaves.
Mary Oliver - The Truro Bear
ReplyDeleteThere’s a bear in the Truro woods.
People have seen it - three or four,
or two, or one. I think
of the thickness of the serious woods
around the dark bowls of the Truro ponds;
I think of the blueberry fields, the blackberry tangles,
the cranberry bogs. And the sky
with its new moon, its familiar star-trails,
burns down like a brand-new heaver,
while everywhere I look on the scratchy hillsides
shadows seem to grow shoulders. Surely
a beast might be clever, be lucky, move quietly
through the woods for years, learning to stay away
from roads and houses. Common sense mutters:
it can’t be true, it must be somebody’s
runaway dog. But the seed
has been planted, and when has happiness ever
required much evidence to begin
its leaf-green breathing?
A hike sounds the perfect antidote. Yours in leaf-green breathing,
☺
It was.
DeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteYes, it was nice to go before it gets truly hot here and hiking won't be an option.
DeleteLooks like a lovely walk.
ReplyDeleteYes, I need to go back. Today.
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