I'm sitting here thinking silly thoughts,how unusual! The truck's outside the window here with it's load of split wood and I'm thinking I'm glad it came from deadfall as I wouldn't like to get heat from trees taken alive. I think we need to have connection to things in that manner to appreciate our surroundings. To walk through the woods and wonder at the height of and the lodging these wonderful trees give is a treat,a gift. To breath deep of the air cleaned by the trees and to be in the woods as the sun rises is a wonder. You can feel it,if you are deep in the woods you can feel the change in the air as the sun hits the trees. Have you ever done that? Just sit and rest looking up as the sun hits the tips of the trees and travels down? You see the contours and the rough bark gets highlighted,the shadows cross and recross as the sun lights the branches on the way down. You may see a glisten in the fresh sunlight,sap that has been freed by a birds beak. You may see pollen released as the sun heats the cones and it floats down in colours. Some is yellow,bright and pure,some is golden,mature and fertile,some is rust and lingers on the needles and floats softly landing on the bed of moss. This one spruce was little,a sappling when the natives were travelling through this north country. Travelling through without the paving and cement that man forced through the north. Maybe this sappling was bent by a moccasin stepping gentle with canoe over head to reach the lake. Maybe this tree when in mid life hung food while they camped over night. Seeking to save it from night preditors. This one tree may have witnessed the first cuttings and because of it's true straight nature was spared because its beauty was to be left to admire. The life of this one tree is to be honoured because it is,it is there against all odds,it gives so very much and it enriches the earth without asking anything. So I think these thoughts and wonder what this day will bring as we all go forth into it. We need to honour each day as it is the one and only in our travels through our lives. True Blessings to all.