So, I was thinking, as we were walking today, how lucky we are to live where we can walk from our front door to "the bush" in only 6 minutes. Actually, we can walk there in about 4 minutes, but if you turn around you can still see houses, but if we walk another 2 minutes, well, you may as well be 100 miles in the bush.Today we really bundled up, it was -15 and I was prepared to be cold and cranky, but there was no wind and the sun was out, it was surprisingly warm.
We were just at the 6 minute mark when Steven spotted this doe catching a few rays. Double click on the picture for more detail. Seriously, there isn't a sight that I find more beautiful than a deer in the snow. They always look so shocked to see someone, ears perked up and eyes wide open. She was chewing, and her jaw was moving sort of sideways, it was like she was talking out of the corner of her mouth, mobster style: "Pssst...don't move...humans at 3 o'clock..."
We walked a little further and saw a wasp nest in a tree. The funny thing about that is, we walk past this same tree at least 3 or 4 times a week all year, and we never spotted it at all. Odd. I was sure that the wasps were all either dead or hibernating, so I felt pretty confident that I could get close for a picture, and then I bravely poked at it with a stick...you know, just to say that I did.
Then Steven's artistic side came out and he left a "self portrait" on a tree. The resemblance is fairly accurate.Anyhow, my point about all this is, I quit smoking just over 13 years ago, and I remember that it used to take 6 minutes to smoke a cigarette and I just thought it was an interesting comparison, all the 6 minute increments of time that I wasted smoking, and look what I can see and do now in that same amount of time. Another good reason to quit...look at what you might be missing1
