Off the Path and Into the Woods

(This is a post i started a few weeks ago and forgot! This explains why everything is so green. Obviously the woods no longer look like this.)

 Sometimes when i am walking i just can't help but leave the path and follow a footpath into the woods

 I go in just far enough so that i am the only person there

 It smells like earth and pine needles and warm sun, and all i hear are the birds and the leaves rustling

 i love to just stand there in the quiet

 and be part of all the beauty that surrounds me. I say a prayer that all who pass thru here be Blessed...two legged, four legged, furred, feathered, winged and scaled.

 But eventually

 we turn around and head back to the path

 we climb over roots

 and rocks

and head back home