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The Pond [Repost - for nature's lovers]
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The Pond [Repost - for nature's lovers] |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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The Pasture Pond There is the 160, and to the northwest corner in a sheltered area lies a small pond, primarily north and southern laid, curving, a drainage area succumbing at the northern end from too much rain, the furthermost corner of the dammed area eroding away. To reach the pond you must go over two swells of elevated native country, not hills, just swells, enough to lift you high at the top to see 360 degrees, and view the Smoky Hills. Indian country. Virgin land. Just you and me. Once at the pond, we can slide rocks over the frozen waters, and test the ice with our boots, give it more weight, hear a cracking and step back. Not cold enough to slide across fear holds us back, we've never known how really deep the pond and don't want to find out now. Wait a moment. Spring's rains dissolve the iciness of winter and warmer weather starts the pond to brewing scum green and bubbling, warm sun growing algae, with bobbing eyes of half-morphed tadpoles blinking, sinking, popping up over there, see? Step into the worn ruts left from last summer's cow's tracings to the edge of the pond, kick the sand a bit with your booted toe, and watch the red ants swarm. Cattails are beginning, reeds only. Wait a moment. Summer erupts the pond into cattails brown tops and frogs and squirrels chittering along the bank, and turtles and bugs, water bugs dancing, skimming the pond's surface and down the frog's throat. Now skim small rocks, flat rocks, make them dance and plop. Plop. Plop. A bit of moss clings to the edge of the water and you walk softly there, to not scare ....croack.... splash, splish, frogs hear you anyway, and dive, dive safely. The weeping willow lends a long trunk outward over the pond, enough to sit on and gaze out on the shimmering pond's surface, discerning eyes of toads, frogs and perhaps a turtle floating in the middle. Wishing for a small boat. Just for the heck of it. Heads disappear. Pop back up. Croaking. Chirping. Buzzing. Look toward the pond's south end, a blue heron standing. Still. Silent. Solitary. Ducks overhead, waiting for us to leave. Wait a moment. Rest begins. Water lower, scum gone, cooler mornings, lazy afternoons of fall begun. Cattails effervesced into fuzzy white puffs of seed waiting for scattering winds. Shining gold/yellow/red/orange reflections on blue water from the cottonwoods, elms, birch, and hedgetrees. Quiet. A frog, huge now, croaking deeper, lonely, only the one? No answer. Splush. Cows on the rise, watching you, waiting for you to leave. Come with me. You've seen the seasons of the pond. Karilea When you want to be loved, look within...KRJ |
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Kit McCallum
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Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
Oh Sunshine ... what a wonderfully descriptive journey this was! I think I used almost all my senses in reading this, from sights, to sounds, to smells ... a nature lover's dream it is, beautiful!  Best wishes, /Kit |
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Sunnyone Member Ascendant
since 2000-07-06
Posts 5334Staffordshire, England |
Sunshine..... This one should just be kept at the top of the list, as far as I'm concerned! How wonderfully you have shown us the seasons of change while focusing on something never changing in that it's always there!! Excellent write, my friend!!!!  Today is a gift.... That is why they call it 'the Present'! |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
If you see my nest to your pond with my feet kicked across my knees and my head resting on the ground, just ignore me....this is where I plan on spending the rest of this day today!!! Beautiful imagery and full of awakening touch. Loved it before really loving it now. |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Kit, if you saw, heard, and smelled all that, then I did it right! Thank you! Sunny1, Shine On! Mark, then this is the perfect spot for you! Thank you. Karilea When you want to be loved, look within...KRJ |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Wonderful!!!! Thank you for such a perfect trip through the seasons. |
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chitsank Member
since 2002-08-13
Posts 88 |
That was a great journey thru the seasons. |
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