I went for a long walk today. I took a different route to get to about the same place I usually walk to. I've been trying to find a better way to get to where i was headed for a week or so now. Twice I turned into the woods that goes to my younger brother's back pasture too early, and I got stuck in a briar patch both times, and had to back outta there and find a way around the briars. I still got scratched up a bit. Today I walked further along before i cut back into the woods, and so it was a little more of a beaten path to follow. '
I walked to the back pasture and then took the usual dirt road back to my house. It was maybe a mile and a half walk. Most of it over plowed ground, so i got quite a bit of aerobic exercise. It's still too early for the spring buds to be forming, but the red bud maple branches are turning reddish. I've got a fair sized one growing just outside my bedroom window. It''s a full sized window and hasn't got a curtain on it yet. It may never get one, so that tree is the first thing I see every morning while I'm still laying in bed.
The interesting thing about red bud maples is that they're really one of the first signs of the coming of the green. The tiny little branches at the top of the tree are turning blood red. It's kind of spectacular when the sun rises over the horizon. The first rays of the sun strike the top branches of that red bud maple and the entire canopy of it comes alive even before the sun breaks the horizon. As the sun rises the redness follows the light down to the lower limbs of the tree. By mid-morning that special color fades into the brightness of the day.
I have to make a special effort to sleep eight hours a night. Getting six solid hours of sleep seems to be about all I need. I wake up after six hours, and only seldom can I go back to sleep again. Particularly in the winter, I stay up and watch the late shows on TV just so I'll be able to sleep in until the sun gets high enough to take the morning chill out of the air.
My summer routine is different because I don't have to wait until the sun comes up for it to get warmer. before I get outta bed. When It's warm I go to bed anytime and get up anytime, and getting eight hours sleep is not irregular because I usually take long naps in the middle of the day. Siesta.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
