A Luminous Evening

I went via the river earlier...the sky was luminous and the river sparkling silver as was the distant sky over the mountains, the air was super fresh and breezy, which i love, as living on a plain the air can get a bit slow for my liking! So it was a case of fresh, fresh air, luminous skies and lovely natural scenery...i made my way along the riverbank swinging my arms and feeling free, then when i reached a hole in a fence darted down to the golfcourse and made my way across. The greens looked amazingly luminous and numerous seagulls were 'worming' and rooting about for grubs etc...i entered the woods in a place i found the other day which led up to the lower meadow, i am trying to alternate approaches so as not to leave too obvious a trail, then up to the upper meadow and in...back to my bower. It seemed fresh here tonight, the air was charged and colourful...i did a bit of work shifting the moss and bramble 'bits' i had scythed down the other day and added them to the 'roof' of my teepee style hut..it is looking so authentically rustic and tribal right now i love it!!! then i took a good look at the structure of it..it is basically a load of willow branches resting against a goat willow tree, however it is not fully round 'yet' but will be when completed. What i noticed tonight is that i am sure it has slightly tilted the goat willow..this is not good, as i don't want the thing to tip the willow over and collapse, not only for the sake of the shelter, but also for the sake of the tree! when i first started clearing this area many years ago the goat willow was not there...it capitalised on the cleared ground and is growing in a place of its own power (as in where the seed landed rather than being transplanted there by me)so i did it a favour in the first place in creating an area where a seed landed and had a chance to grow, but i feel i owe it one now again...i love trees and i intend to shore up and complete the teepee so as to distribute evenly the weight around it...me happy! tree happy! another thing i noticed, is that the willow branches i cut and used as supports for the straw and mud have in some cases taken root themselves..(strong trees!) so it is a sort of 'living' shelter! i looove the 'organicness' of that!...i treated myself to ten minutes on the plantpot chilling and feeling greatly at peace, then, i headed back out, a different way, back down the slopes, over the course, to the river....and home...