Basking in the Glory

Who knew the path down to Elk’s beach would be so rife with flowers?
Probably everyone who regularly walks there!
But I’m just an occasional Elk walker, so I was surprised and delighted by the plethora of posies.
Some were wild
and some were planted long ago.
I met an elderly man about halfway down the trail.
We smiled. I flung out my arm in a slightly less graceful way than Vanna White might, as if I were presenting him the beauty.
He lifted the camera from around his neck in a gesture that meant: I know!
We never spoke.
We simply basked in the glory.
For sometimes basking is all that is required of us.

Photos © Sondra Sula.

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If you’d prefer a daily river walk, Reflections on the Fox River and Beyond by Sondra Sula, might just be the book for you.