The Lazy Days Of Summer

Sitting here beneath the shade of a tall tree, just fishing and wasting the morning away.
The sun is just rising over the Eastern slops, the river is running past in it's route to a larger river, and on to the ocean. It is calm and quiet here all alone, not another sole around. This is a great time to just sit here and think, and watch all of the wonders of the world pass by. A bull elk just came out onto a rock cropping, to take a look around, and sniff the air for any danger's, before coming on down to the river to get a drink. Then he wandered on down to the river's edge and drank the cool clear water. Then wondered back into the Forrest and disappeared from sight. A beaver came swimming down the river doing his daily chores of getting ready for the coming winter, taking bark and twigs to hes hole underneath the river bank. The fish are not biting today so I can just sit without having to move about, but just sit and watch as the world passes by.The deer come almost close enough to just reach out and touch, as they feed nearby. I just sit here in the grass and watch as Gods wonders go about their daily duty's. A cow moose comes down to the river's edge to take an early morning swim, and get to the other side, then as the elk disappear into the forest. The deer are still just milling around feeding and haven't even seemed to notice that I am even here. The birds are all singing as if to have not a care in the world. Who needs any of those modern things that we all pay so dearly for. No need for a radio with the birds singing their tune's, no need for TV when you can watch these wonders.There is no TV that can show a sight this clear, no radio can play a tune so great as this with all the clarity. To be here and see all of this first hand, in real life is an indescribable feeling of the greatest gratitude, that no radio or TV can give to it. I by myself feel great in the early morning hours, and all alone to just sit and think the hours away. Early morning is a time to just sit back and think, and be grateful for all of the wonders that God has made that we all take for granted. So sitting here Just wasting time,(well not really wasting time) but taking in all of the wonders on a lazy summer morning.
As I think back when I was a small boy, I know that I did not appreciate all of these many wonders, even though I was always fascinated to sit and watch, and enjoy them all the same. I would get up early and do my morning chores, then head to the river bottoms to spend the day just being lazy. Here at the river I meet up with some of my friends, and we would swim and just lounge around and wast the days away being lazy. Then as the day would be coming to an end I would have to rush home and do my evening chores, before my dad got home from work or else, he would make me wish that I had. But now that I am older I have learned to appreciate all of these classical wonders that God gave me to enjoy. I still like to be lazy, and sit on the river edge and listen to the water rushing by, and take in all of the sights, that now I have came to appreciate, instead of wanting to chase them away, just for the thrill of running after them, and see them fleeing in front of me. I never thought that something like this would ever happen to me, I was always the outdoor type, hunting, fishing and such never to just sit and enjoy all these little things that are here for all to enjoy. So now I can appreciate a lazy day of summer.