The ‘brook’ is down, exposing a boulder here and there, the shoreline is gradually exposed as the water level drops…but, in the shade, the shaded spot offers a respite from the heat, a soothing sound and usually an upstream breeze to cool the sweat on the brow.
dream on……
“O woman! In our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade, by the light quivering aspen made; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou” Sir Walter Scott
“There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.” Washington Irving
Unlike most roses that seem to reach upward to the light, this red beauty seems to have sought a more horizontal path to light…beauty in the shadows
“O woman!- In our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade, by the light quivering aspen made; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou”
Sir Walter Scott
listening to the stream’s rapids and the afternoon winds moving through the fir trees…..
