Monday, March 30, 2015

Two Women in the Woods - Coming Monday, April 6, 2013


Early morning sounds of life in the Carolina woods call lovers of nature to life.  Dazzling colors broadcast the southeastern sky like children playing with watercolors for the very first time. Birds make their melodies like orchestras in the soundtracks of favorite old time cartoons.

Rabbits and squirrels hunt for their breakfasts hopping climbing. One likes plants. The other likes plants. The air of beautiful mornings pours clean and feels like favorite beverages sliding down at first breaths. Life is good in the mountain woods. Behind the fluttering coming of day, calm reigns. 

Today’s sunrise and early morning foraging for the fruits of the forest is just like every day before it. Nothing is different, at least not at first.  Life always has her unique way of throwing an outside curve that breaks back in over the plate when least expected.

Two women living in an off the beaten path cabin, Cathy and Sherry, walk in the woods to enjoy an early morning look for mushrooms, roots, herbs, and berries growing wild.  They enjoy their lives in this remnant of Eden.

No men tell them what to do. No small children dominate their attention. They are free to be and live as they choose.  They enjoy their early morning walks as the sun climbs the sky. The walk in the fresh air invigorates them for their day ahead.

The morning has been successful.  It is uneventful except for the things they found. Wild strawberries and blackberries join sassafras and ginseng roots.  Mushrooms crown the basket to running over.  Happiness gives birth to smiles and the journey back to the cabin begins.

Then what is least expected happened. Something sticks out from under fallen limbs and leaves.  It looks like a hand.

Look for Two Women in the Woods, Monday April 6, 2015.

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