Woods Walk. . .

In learning to use this camera, I am finding that the world, the natural world in particular, is revealing itself in all manner of new ways.  Revelation, evidently, requires one to see differently than before, to be willing to lie on one's belly, to look closely and touch with both eyes and skin, to smell and taste and risk new visions.

We took a walk in the woods this past weekend.  I now automatically take the camera.  Its technical abilities expand my own and allow the sharing. This planet's natural world is Paradise.  We humans bump around in the midst of astounding wonders which, for the most part, we do not witness.  I risk sounding like a babbling idiot, or worse, the teacher, but if I'm willing to see just a little more carefully. . .there is the swirl of bark, the mosaic of the turtle shell, the light reflecting off the creek, or streaming through the big maple in the back, furry with new growth:

It seems to me that we humans are the tiniest bit addicted to an expanded view of our intelligence.  To keep this illusion requires a lot of effort, for to look around even the slightest will bring you to your knees. Humans have been having this love affair with the mind for quite some time now, convinced that slicing up reality into smaller and smaller bits is the only way to get to the truth.  It seemed to work for awhile, but now we are down to GMO's and nanotechnology, and it seems we have forgotten our way back home.  GMO corn, soybeans and now alfalfa are not working as well as homemade bread crumbs to mark the trail.  

We're going to have to find our own way, which I suppose was always the case, each of us, holding hands, maybe walking in the woods.