Went Canoeing
Sep. 22nd, 2012 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstill Went canoeing today for the first time since spring. Kip helped me load Moxie on the car. As it happened I had ample help carrying her to the water, as a bunch of Carson Newman students were in the area picking up trash as a community service.
There was a fair amount of wind, and I ended up muscling from one lee to the next. But the day was beautiful--bright sun and puffy clouds, and while the water level is dropping (they keep the lake high for recreation until Labor Day and then they lower it for the winter) but it's not really low yet. I saw Great Blue Herons, which look much Blue-er when the sun is on them, and a lot of little turtles, though they all dove into the water when they saw me. First I see them on their logs or rocks and then they plop into the water and I see little dark things poking above the water surface--turtle noses with turtle eyes peering just above the water, but they're too small to make out very well. Then the dark things disappear and I know the turtles dived to get away from me.
I spent some time in a little backwater, holding onto a snag in the shade and the lee (which is like shade from the wind) and reading REVELS, which spent most of the time carefully wrapped in a zip-loc bag and stowed in my drybag to be doubly safe, but came out for a few minutes, like a lunch or a snack, when it was safe.
I had a lovely time. I haven't really done anything musical today but I think a day off was called for and the Equinox was a very propitious day to spend between sun and shade, between wind and lee, between sky and water and earth.
And then I got hungry, which always happens when I'm trying to have a Spiritual Moment because I am, when we get right down to it, a creature of flesh and I wouldn't have it any other way. So I went home. Happy Equinox, everyone!
There was a fair amount of wind, and I ended up muscling from one lee to the next. But the day was beautiful--bright sun and puffy clouds, and while the water level is dropping (they keep the lake high for recreation until Labor Day and then they lower it for the winter) but it's not really low yet. I saw Great Blue Herons, which look much Blue-er when the sun is on them, and a lot of little turtles, though they all dove into the water when they saw me. First I see them on their logs or rocks and then they plop into the water and I see little dark things poking above the water surface--turtle noses with turtle eyes peering just above the water, but they're too small to make out very well. Then the dark things disappear and I know the turtles dived to get away from me.
I spent some time in a little backwater, holding onto a snag in the shade and the lee (which is like shade from the wind) and reading REVELS, which spent most of the time carefully wrapped in a zip-loc bag and stowed in my drybag to be doubly safe, but came out for a few minutes, like a lunch or a snack, when it was safe.
I had a lovely time. I haven't really done anything musical today but I think a day off was called for and the Equinox was a very propitious day to spend between sun and shade, between wind and lee, between sky and water and earth.
And then I got hungry, which always happens when I'm trying to have a Spiritual Moment because I am, when we get right down to it, a creature of flesh and I wouldn't have it any other way. So I went home. Happy Equinox, everyone!
