as I walk with Tuck across the
road to the cranberry bogs being
replanted. Up the sandhill where
turtles lay eggs to the forest path
I tread where pine boughs gently
bow their heads as if saying grace.
New growth I see, some fiddler ferns
playing Chopin to woodland flowers blue.
A green mossy bed beckons to me
but cool is the breeze and Tuck,
impatient runs ahead stopping only to
look back at me. With questioning
eyes he stares and then comes
running back and nuzzles my
fingers hanging down and that
makes me laugh. Now we come
out of the trees to the meadow
where a boomerang once flew
I spy three ospreys hunting for fish
in the reservoir down below; a red tail
hawk swoops down and catches a mouse
or perhaps a tiny mole and flies
overhead to a maple tree just beginning
to leaf. Passing the murky water, two
red-wing blackbirds are mating on an
alder bush as male tree frogs fill out
dance cards and I have to wonder
why people spend Sundays in church
when all the answers can be found
in a beautiful script written by
the Father of us all.
Come take the walk with us this Mother's Day morn...
May your Mother's Day be filled with special delights wrapped up in a bouquet of wildflowers.
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I will be back several times today just to see the gorgeous photos - the poem is lovely, as well.
Happy Mother's Day - you and the Earth, Bob.
Your article is Featured in the Triple Name Club.
loved the first tree... it looks pregnant... how appropriate to begin a mothers' day article :)
Plain words blooming with deep insight
If we look to nature every day
We are nearer to what God has to say
Thanks for sharing your beauty dear Lady Bess!
Thanks for posting this to BEST ORIGINAL PHOTOS, ART AND WRITING FOR 2008.
Thanks so much for posting this to
my group
Beautiful photo essay. It makes me wish for the pine forests back home.
I hope you've had a wonderful Mother's Day.
I loved evey word and every picture in your essay, Mother Nature smiled upon you today, the light was beautiful. Tuck looked radiantly happy too:)
Happy mother's day busy lady!
And, if I may, belatedly, wish you also a:
I'd go the walk just for his sake, never mind my own.
I too feel the the church of nature, when I go out into the bush. So I know what you mean deep down.
We have the privilege of a hill and an antelope park in our suburb. When I go there I thank God for this the almost ultimate gift.
Love from me to you.
Someday I need to take you and Cam....you would truly love this walk. I need to share my forest with little ones.
I especially thought these lines quite beautiful.
'New growth I see, some fiddler ferns
playing Chopin to woodland flowers blue.'
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U wishing you laughter
Thanks for taking us along on your walk and posting to Take A Walk With Me