something beautiful
caught my eye. . .a rainbow hugging
that slender tree
Walking along the trail in the woods, something beautiful caught my eye like a rainbow of color wrapped around a slender tree. I smiled. I looked again and thought, oh no, stand back, it’s poison, and you know what that means! Even so, I was a reluctant to leave. It was so pretty. . .and you know what they sometimes say about “pretty.” All those colors—the green and gold and red and rust and bronze—the way they wrapped around the trunk all the way from the bottom ground then leaf by leaf up the trunk. Like I said, I didn’t want to leave, so I took a picture so I could zoom in and get close, real close.
