I remember a guy, standing in a shop I was foreman of one time asking me; "Do you ever shut up?" :) My reply; "Some folks drink to deal, some folks eye gives a little twitch when they get nervous... Me? My nervous twitch is, I talk!... and bein' in town amongst 6 billion people... makes me Yack like a magpie!... get me out in the bush... and I get real quiet, real quick."
That's my story, an' I'm stickin' to it...
So... Though I'm likely to have my "neighbors" come back this weekend... I'll deal... 'cause you know why? I was here before they came... and I'll be here after they leave. :) ... and they, with all their commotion won't see the deer that walked through their abandoned camp... or the turkey that walked across the head of the meadow last evening...
They're unlikely to see any more then a flash of this little guy...
and though I couldn't find the frogs doin' the croakin' in this pond either...
Which I very much wanted to capture a picture of... Those noisy folks likely won't even be able to hear the croakin'... 'cause those frogs are awful careful. Just me creepin' up as quiet as I could get turned 'em off... They'll close up fast when they hear the racket of them others comin'...
Yeah... the best medicine is to just pull on my boots... and put my boots on a trail in the mountains somewhere... maybe I can't control the peace in camp... all the time... but I can sure take myself to places rude people don't have the ambition to get...
... and see the things most of them will never see... 'cause they can't seem to learn... :) oops... there I go... gettin' all grumpy again... enough of that...
One thing I can say about this area... and Mark kind of touched it in his comment about Ashley National Forest yesterday... They don't seem to have the manpower... or the initiative to do any trail maintenance in this area :) ... we followed a couple of trails yesterday, that had markings at the head... and clear trails... but... you get a few hundred yards down the path... and pfffffttttt! gone...
... and I mean gone... not just faint... I mean... the trail that the signboard at the trail head says "2 miles" comes to a patch of deadfall and rocks and just goes away...
Now... that isn't a huge issue... I can find my way through that stuff and get home again... but... that takes... OK... this is kinda delicate... so cover the kids eyes...
...All Covered Up? ... ok... That takes W-O-R-K ! ... and I just want a nice, pleasant, walk in the park! Not a bunch of bushwhackin'! :) or... that 4 letter word! :)
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| *Mountain Trail to Nowhere!* |
So.. we ended up makin' it kind of a "cloverleaf" hike... a whole bunch of circles comin' back to the main trail... when the "Marked" trail just disappeared into deadfall and rock fields... with nuthin' ... and I mean Nuthin'... comin' out anywhere... :)
It's a little early yet... the flowers are juuuuuuust startin' to poke up... give it another week or so... and with all the moisture of this past winter... and this "spring" that just can't seem to get sprung, there should be plenty to capture on "film"...
Hey! Somethin' else those "other" sorts aren't likely to see either... assuming they're just rippin' up and down the roads and ATV trails... you gotta put boot leather on muddy trails... and take your time, to see a lot of the best that's out there to be seen...
Aw well.. their loss, not mine... 'cause me... I get my "words talked out in the morning" ... and put my boots on the trail... uh... or a Motorcycle, leaning through the twisties... grateful that at least, I, learned...
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| *Yeah, a little early yet... Not quite bloomed...* |
Just Another Walk in the Park
Brian
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5 comments:
"A Lot of People Will Find THIS, Hard to Believe... But I'm a Naturally Quiet Guy!"
Hmmm, lets see... We've known each other for somewhere over 20 years now, and "Naturally Quiet" is not a term that comes to mind when describing you. In fact, I think that "Naturally Quiet" and "Brian Gore" are mutually exclusive terms.
Adios!
Mike
Takes only one word to describe you: Beautiful. Thanks for being the person you are. Ed
"Naturally quiet???" Compared to what???
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear, does it make a sound?? (Quiet??)
sheesh! guess a guy don't come around here for any sort of sympathetic consideration huh?
'cept maybe from "anonymous" :)
... I always thought of myself as Purty too! :)
You are one funny cowpoke, poke, poke, poke..:))
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