The Minerva Oak's feet are in the water again!
Still, I filmed this meditation. The sound was recorded on the same day at the Reserve but separately.
I was there to monitor my Sentinel Trees. I was happy that one of the ash trees looks better as does one of the oaks. I was also happy to see a frog... toad... toad, I guess... or maybe frog.
While I was checking one tree, I stood still, listening to the birds - this was when I was recording the audio. A baby muntjac wandered past me just a few feet away. I couldn't move as I didn't want to scare them, so I just watched.
Later, I sat with another of the oaks and had this message: in a working ecosystem every action leads to a superabundance of positive things. Even a disaster leads to more that is good than is bad. In time. Actually, even seemingly destroyed ecosystems, given time, can revive. Yes, I have started Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment.
It was a lovely sunny day, such a change from the recent miserable wet weather. That was refreshing.
I saw a squirrel run across the bottom of the screen early in the video! Good water shots. Lovely of the sun's rays through the tree branches. And the lichens and moss on bark and branches. And the toad (frog?) looks big! They've got warty skin so maybe toad? (and is very photogenic.) In the Abandonment book (I read the Guardian blurb) -- I wonder how the cows are doing "an uninhabited Scottish island where feral cattle, the descendants of cows left by fleeing farmers in the 1970s, roam free". Interesting that the author book offers a sort of hope arising from the ashes, even after things get destroyed. Glad you had a good day at the Reserve.