A Strange Approach

Earlier this evening while the sun shone really bright after a day of intense rain showers I headed to the river. It was betwixt the high and low tides and the silky surface reflected the changing sky above...oranges/yellows/pinks/blues....vivid colours and large grey/white billowing cloud formations. The air was fresh and felt totally alive. I soon shed my manic day of work from my head and shoulders and moved swiftly yet calmly towards the golf course. Damn! 3 golfers were heading down the greens which would have meant a long wait in the shadowy paths until they had moved on, yet i wanted to keep going! so i walked further along, found a hole in the fence and entered the course a lot further along than usual....this meant a long detour through the green and bright links and trees to get to my wood, it was worth it...nature was on my side, providing invisibility from the focused golfers...i paced freely through the course, moving behind the lines of trees, past another couple of gaggles of golfers and to the line of the woods.This was not my end of the woods..it was really tangled so i fought my way through saplings,ivy,brambles, hawthorns, up down, around, thru..it was tough going..at one stage the rains came again and thru the gaps in the trees i could see torrential ran falling on the course. however, amongst the tangles, i was dry...well my clothes were in fact getting wetter by the minute, but this was from wet leaves and trees rather than the falling rain itself. I felt a bit of an intruder here...no one ever comes to these wooded slopes and i reackon if i was full of mushrooms or something similar i would probably be seeing all sorts of goblins/elves etc:)...eventually i made it to my part of the wood, and soon found myself in my clearing. i got out a plantpot and recovered from the mad little expedition. Soon i was deeply relaxed..everywhere was lurid colours, from the bright sky..magic!! i took in my 'extension'...which i will talk about in a later blog, and which i started yesterday...it is no longer just a circle though, more of a growing figure of 8. anyway, after a while i felt i had better return so left my bower, down thu the lower meadows, back to the river, then the carpark...felt totally alive ....stress at work? all gone....all GONE!!!