(created from 6 images stitched with Image Composite Editor)

I may have a lot going on but I still find excitement and awe in some of the most simple things like a thunderstorm, the sound of bees, wheat fields, or a hawk soaring on a thermal.

I enjoy watching my morning espresso nearly as much as drinking it (although watching it does not help me wake up any faster).

 

music courtesy Vielfaure at audiomicro.com.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

BTW: I added a night shot to the previous “harvest” post.

There are those rare times, when you feel you are the only one on earth. It is quiet. You don’t hear cars or trucks rushing past. No machinery whizzing, whining, clanging and banging. There are no conversations, no interruptions. There is nature. Not good and evil, just nature – doing what nature does. Warming under the new sunrise – water becomes vapor; birds hunt for food; small creatures avoid being food.

But the “observer effect” rears its ugly head … our presence disturbs a heron, the silt crabs scurry to their holes, a rabbit darts into the thicket. All too quickly, the world has awakened. The memory is captured. The moment has escaped.