Setting out on today's Journey
i begin among the OLD OAKS
which line SHOAL CREEK BLVD.
yet no sooner than i begin am i pulled down the embankment
to the rock-bed of SHOAL CREEK itself

by all reckonings this is Wednesday morn
tho it has all the feel and characteristics
of a carefree Saturday
its as tho i am a grade-school student

set-free by my Masters

immediately my senses are captured
by such Natural Features
as grassy knolls well-rounded river-rock
and stagnant back-water black pools

run-off fed by the devastation of development
that is houses streets and imaginary neighborhoods

NATURE is as you find it
an inner-dialogue a projection of ourselves
existing in our minds as we frame it

And NATURE is as it ever was
and will be again
thru-out all Nature reigns

So i emerge from my Nature Quest

at the heavily trafficked intersection

of Allendale & Northland

which as a place pales in comparison

to Shoal Creek itself