Thursday, December 26th, 2013

Deer Lake, British Columbia

Deer Lake

According to my hosts on this trail, a prison was once standing at Deer Lake.  I was shown some of the foundation which still remains.  What was then is no more.

At the edge of the lake, beavers have done their expert work chiseling almost to pencil point some sizeable trees.  One tree in particular has, in my estimation, only one chewing day left before you can holler timber, “Timber!” Such is the way of an ever changing landscape whether adjusted by man or by nature.  Change is changeless.  It is eternal.  The only feature of the world that does not change is the Creator.

It really was a break from people that I found at Deer Lake compliments of Manoharini and family who brought me here.  It’s just great to capture a piece of nature in the course of the day.

There’s a usual rendezvous for the lake’s turtle population.  Usually when the sun peaks out , these guys tend to cluster at one corner of the lake on a long piece of driftwood.  They just lie there motionless in perfect camouflage, but today they were just not there for us to view.  We didn’t have that satisfaction.  Yet we knew they’re in there somewhere in the silky mud.  Something was swishing around at the water’s bottom.

The soul is like that as well.  It appears hidden or perhaps even nonexistent, yet by the mere presence of consciousness, the testimony of its being lies in its life symptoms.

We carried on by foot along the lake and saw the eager response of birds at our tossing of pistachios.  Geese, drakes, crows and gulls all picked up speed at the first throw.  It looked as if we were capturing 2/4ths of their primary activities, out of eating, mating, sleeping and defense, we were observant of their eating and defense.  Defense came in the form of just that – speed.

To absorb the power of the lake, and all that’s connected to it, we stopped walking and sat by a blue spruce for gayatri chanting.  The smell of the needles from that tree when pinched, what can I say, wow.

It’s essential to meet nature each day.  It makes the day whole, complete.  There is much to learn from this encounter.

Deer Lake, I like it.  It’s a fine eco system with many wonders.  Only thing is you might not sight a deer, at least I’ve never seen any there.  I guess that’s a wonder in itself.

May the Source be with you!

5 KM