Son has often made the statement that I am easily amused or entertained. He claims that my mind can find joy where others refuse to look. To my way of thinking, that is how things are supposed to work. We should not have to constantly be bombarded with artificial stimuli to keep the brain moving. There is far more than enough to stimulate any brain without smacking it with only others' ideas. My brain wanders in a different route. I can find joy and beauty in just about anything.
This morning, I sat in the garden with my first mug of coffee pondering the chore plan for the day. With storms threatening to enter the Gulf in the next few days, my time would be spent hauling the planks that were salvaged from Hurricane Zeta up the hill a bit further. Over two thousand boards had been de-nailed and stacked but were now needing to be restacked where possible flood waters would not reach them. What a job! But this morning as I sat sipping the coffee, my brain slipped off into a wonderland of thoughts. Sitting in the garden can do that to you! Ideas of new features for the area swirled with wild abandon. Don't get me wrong, my gardens are about as hodgepodge as they come but that is the way I love them. Suddenly, my eyes focused on a single post in the midst of the purple basil and wild ageratums. Ahh, that is lovely! The post has no apparent reason for being in the flower bed other than I thought it needed to be there. So, I stuck it there...randomly but on purpose!
As I was sitting there, the post suddenly came magically came alive. A quite large skink slowly made its way to the top then turned to go back down about halfway. There it stopped to bask in the morning sunlight. What is so magical about a post and a skink, you may ask. Well, I had just recently thought it would be nice to have one of those ceramic lizards somewhere just as a point of interest. Nope! I do not need one. I have the real thing and it is far nicer. The Magic of the Small Gardens came into play once again. There is no limit to the wonders of nature. (Or perhaps Son is correct and I am easily amused.)
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