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feeling: tired
listening to: B-52s - Love Shack :P
Once again, there was something I meant to post here, but I forget what it was.
So on to the next topic. Went for a walk in the woods yesterday. Been a very long time since I last did that... so long, in fact, that the landscape has changed. My little clearing near the top of the hill is gone. ;_; Apparently the people on the other side of the hill decided to start some construction project or something, cause now there's a vehicle-width path cut out, right through the middle of my former haven.
But, oh well. There's still lots of woods out there and I explored some paths I've never walked before, and actually probably never even noticed before... and there are other clearings, other mossy spots, other lovely points from which to observe the view.
Granted, the majority of all these things are technically outside of our property line... but who cares. It's a bunch of trees. I dare anyone to try to bite my head off for innocently walking among a bunch of trees. It's not like I'm trapping wild game or building a casino. >> <<
Anyway... another thing I discovered on my walk is that redbud blossoms are fragrant. O.o How many years have I lived here, surrounded by redwoods, our home separated from the road by a whole line of them, and never noticed that?
I should take another walk today and see how the peach tree and grape arbor across the road are coming along... and mom's irises... and hopefully soon there'll be honeysuckle and dogwood adding to the scenery. And I also need to see if we still have that little wild cherry tree... if we do, it won't last much longer, cause every non-redbud tree in the line in front of the house is marked to be cut, in hopes of letting only more redbuds grow back. Not that I dislike the redbuds, but... I liked that little cherry tree. :
...and LOOK at me. Whyyyyy am I getting all a-flutter about spring now? I hate spring. >_>; If I lived in any other part of the world it'd be fine... but spring in Ohio is the stupidest freaking season there is. It's not all that uncommon to have one lovely temperate March day with highs in the 60s or 70s, and then have snow pouring down the next day. And the RAIN. >_< Rain doesn't like me...
But eh... maybe it's because I don't have to spend an hour or more each day outside walking though the elements anymore. Nearly all kinds of weather have their appeals as long as they can be observed through a window from the climate-controlled comforts of one's own home. Like snow. And lightning. And tornadoes. Well, not so much tornadoes. Cause as cool as they are to look at, if they're close enough to the window to be seen, odds are you're kinda screwed.
But yeah, there are definitely perks to looking out my window and seeing all those bright purpley-pink redbuds everywhere, and the peach tree and the green-ness filling everything in and the bright blue sky and the flowers growing and etc...
And that was a very weird rant. O.o Think I need my Sunday nap now... yes... *tries to shake off spring-y thoughts and flops onto bed*
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 4/17/2005 01:00:00 PM
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