SOLSC '21 Day Seven: Getaway Monday, part three

 

I am participating in my ninth Slice of Life Story Challenge run by the team behind the Two Writing Teachers website.  We are challenged to write a blog post a day throughout the month of March.

Monday afternoon brought another reprieve from the rain, so I set out on a different trail.

I found a roaring lion escaping from a tree...or is it a dragon?

Last December, I walked around this log in the path.  That solution wasn't available this time, so I straddled it and moved on!

I laughed when I saw this log vainly attempting to bar the way.

Sometimes we bend and don't break, and end up in a different place than where we started.  (On a more whimsical note...could this be a magic fairy portal?)

A tree skirt of bright green moss.

The raindrops on piney needles sprinkled my hooded head with holy water like the Easter Vigil blessings in Catholic churches.

Spring buds were already pushing through branches still tipped with rusty foliage.

A prickly sign of spring!

The view from the top of a hill as I left the trail, the horizon neatly dividing earth and sky.

I am reminded once again of our connection with nature by the similarity of bare trees and branches with our own circulatory and nervous systems.

I love returning to my tiny cabin and this view, even with dreary skies.

The last of the leftover ziti.  I've got a night of reading, writing, and crocheting ahead, then off to sleep with the trees standing watch.

Saying goodbye to my Getaway, in Tuesday's details to come.