Thought for the Day - 29 September 2001

Subject: Thought for the Day - 29 September 2001
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Sep 01 - 11:32 PM

We drove up on Casper Mountain, earlier this week. The Quaking Aspens had just started to change from bright green to a shimmering gold, made even more so as the sun struck them. They flowed down the ravines among the darker Ponderosa Pines and stood in groups on the edges of the meadows.

It came to me that aspens are very gentle, peaceful trees; demure, shimmering slightly even in no breeze. Their beautiful white trunks rising straight up, reaching so high before branching out; before offering a canopy of gentle green.

The golden clusters reminded me of groups of Buddhist monks in their saffron robes, winding down the zigzag steps of the old Potala Palace in Tibet.

It was a comforting site, a constant in my life, these wonderful, undemanding trees. Glorious in the sunshine, mottled and demure in the shade, offering a visual assurance when nothing else could in the rubble of the past weeks' events.

Namaste

kat

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - 29 September 2001
From: Troll
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 12:14 AM

Thanks, kat, it's a beautiful image. I haven't been in the mountains in the fall in far too long.

troll

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - 29 September 2001
From: AliUK
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 06:08 AM

I'm jealous and happy that you have this wonderful sight kat. Down here we don't have autumn and it's the season that I miss the most. Thanks for the mind-o-graph. :0)

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - 29 September 2001
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 10:24 AM

Troll, time to head for them thar hills.

AliK, but you have all of the colours of carnivale! *bg*

My thanks to both of you.

kat

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - 29 September 2001
From: Hollowfox
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 10:53 AM

Thank you.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - 29 September 2001
From: Allan C.
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 11:17 AM

The " bright green to a shimmering gold" link takes almost forever to load, but it is well worth the wait, folks. Thanks, kat.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - 29 September 2001
From: SharonA
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 01:19 PM

"The Quaking Aspens" – there's a name for a band. Maybe a Quaker folk group? (Our local Quaker folk ensemble is called "Faith and Practice"... get it?)

Thanks, kat. You're right: it's high time for me to get in the car and head upstate (PA) to check out the colors in the Poconos.

Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - 29 September 2001
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Sep 01 - 11:44 PM

Thanks, Allan, Sharon, and Hollowfox.

Allan, aren't those individual leaves beautiful? All of those photos made me very homesick for the Colorado Rockies and I don't mean the baseball team!**BG**

Thanks, everyone,

kat