Weekends are for Walking

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

To-do lists were forgotten this past weekend.

The sunshine called me and I answered, heading for the woods
 and the wonder to be found there...

Follow me through the woods to a damselfly-covered pond,
 along a dry creek bed lined with ancient cedars,
and back up into the sunshine where butterflies feast on tiny yellow buds.