There
is a 2-1/2 mile trail along Lanana Creek that winds through Nacogdoches where
citizens and students walk, jog, and ride bikes. It is shaded by a canopy of trees and plant
life with boardwalks and dirt trails.
Today, there were beautiful purple flowers and large clover covering the
ground. I only walked a half mile and did not
see the entire trail, but it was enough to inspire my writing and photography
ambitions for a short time. I noticed a
tree with holes around the trunk and wondered if birds had made those. When I touched it, I disturbed a few gnats that
flew around my hands before lighting back on the trunk. A wicked looking wasp buzzed around further
up the trunk. I heard machinery ahead
and thought that it sounded like a hundred busy beehives, but it was only
mowers cutting the grass and sprucing up the old cemetery at Park Street. I turned around to walk back. I was not really alone. Every once in a while a jogger would pass. A man came out of the woods ahead of me and started running to catch up to his friend who I had already passed on the
trail. I surprised a cardinal in the
bush and watched as he hopped from branch to branch. As I am leaving the trail a young man and little boy pass by. The little
boy waves and he smiles. I waved back. How
momentarily pleasant!
