Spring is late, delayed by a blizzard that left two feet of soggy snow, making my front stair’s existence a Schrödinger’s cat. When late April sun emerged, so did we.
The regional park’s informal trails are muddy, steep hollows deceptive in snowpack. The opening lake teems below:
An eagle’s nest, with eagles nesting;
A beaver swimming, teeth sharpened on trees newly felled;
Ducks ducking, splashing and diving;
One blue heron stretching his neck, hopeful of tasty minnows.
Gimlet-eyed geese glare at our noisy progress, while two muskrats make little muskrats at water’s edge, another few solitaires nibbling new growth.
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2018)
Carrot Ranch Prompt (04/19/2018): In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about forest bathing. You can use the Japanese term, Shinrin Yoku, or you can make up your own ideas about the phrase. Go where the prompt leads.
Those hollows can be deceptive! But all the positive signs are showing. Soon! Soon!
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Beautiful description of your world. All those wonderful animals doing their thing. Spring is glorious.
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Absence (of Spring) has made the heart grow fonder!
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I bet it does.
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Didn’t mean to ‘like’ my own comment. My intent was to like your post! Still sun silly I guess.
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😉
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I love the ducks ducking!
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Didn’t mean to ‘like’ my own comment. My intent was to like your post! Still sun silly I guess.
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That’s how we know the change of seasons is real. 😉
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Schrödinger’s cat. …. learned something…Thanks … yes spring can be fickle 🙂
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Spring assurance and renewal. I feel like such a voyeur, and yet I can’t look away!
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Mother Nature don’t care…go ahead and see her splendor! 😉
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Yes, let it all hang out!
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That was assuring, all the critters still taking care of business.
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Especially those muskrats…I really had to work hard to block the Captain and Tennille from spoiling the mood. (snicker)
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And there it is… I had thus far kept that gd song out of my head.
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My work is here is done.
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Urgh…apparently, not quite: My work here is done.
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