Sometimes the brain asks for a change in the walk stimulation. most of the time, a walk really isn’t about the number of steps taken or deep breathes shared with the trees, which are individually important factors, but only when taken into account in accordance with the pace of watching the light move through the trees, which coincides directly with the direction the journey on the path is taken.
What I’m trying to say is that, the very same trees and fields look different when traveling in a circle with the sun at your back, than they do on the same circle traveled with the sun ahead. Or if you start your path through the fields and end your path through the forest, as opposed to starting in the forest and making your way back home through the fields. Of course the very length of the walk has, by its nature, changed the angle of the light on all things. The amount of bird song over the course of several hours seems to vary as the sun reaches zenith and many of the small birds, now full from breakfast, prefer to rest quietly in the shade. The duck families nestle in the rushes along the pond sides.
Today, I am surprised to find a small shallow pool of water that a family of frogs has habited. It is covered in pond scum of some sort, a perfect camouflage for these frogs just sunning their backs. I would not have noticed them, if I was not alerted by one of them jumping into deeper water with a “plop” at my approaching steps, and my patient curiosity to stand still long enough to “see” the rest of them. As I say “something new happens every day”
