Hi, Nick, A great tale well told. Like yourself I have daily walks with my dog and, when I am fit enough, very long ones. No matter what I see, the following lessons are brought home to me on every walk:- 1 - Dogs are not worried how you view their behaviour. 2 - Dogs do not understand why you don't get as much fun as they do. (Nor do they care). 3 - Dogs have more senses than we do and can perceive things that are hidden from us. 4 - Dogs do not waste a single moment when activity can be engaged in. 5 - Dogs always know a better route. It may not be shorter, though! 6 - Dogs have enough sense to have fun until we stop them. 7 - Dogs understand 'carpe diem'. 8 - Dogs do not know 'bored'. 9 - Dogs will allow us to think we have control if it is to their advantage and 10 - No matter how long you are out with your dog - he will always be ready to do it all again! The sights afforded by the natural habitat? Oh. They are just a bonus! Regards Arthur

WOW, another Nick with Copyright.

CONGRATULATIONS NICK GRIMSHAVE

I am glad to see more and more friends in AdLandPro writing
their experience, their feelings, their poems, their imagination.
Being near the God Arts is to have peace with yourself to
express the inner EGO. 

This is a superb presentation. Your pen glides above the paper
like the south winds touch softly the the naked mountains and
the waves slowly die on the beach.

Keep this nice work going

Goergios
I have caught up and I can now be in my friends forums.

Hello Nick,

What a great story.

I love your writing because to truly great writer you have to be able to make the person reading your story feel like they are a part of it, that they can actually see, feel what you are saying and feeling as if they are there.

That is what we call Passion, When your words can touch someone then you are the teacher teaching others.

 

Let me share with you this,I help the elderly out on ocassion,

And I like to take them out side to look at things and just be out side.as I watch them or just sit with them,I see how they look around they sometimes just sit there and watch as things go on around them or sometimes they share there stories with me, there memories of the past.

But I watch them look at things in bewilderment.It seems like they are looking at things for the first time,There eyes  light up at watching whatever they are looking at.

Once I was watching a man watch a squirrrel, he was in such amazement,he sat there for hours watching this squirrel carry nuts up a tree, the expression on this mans face was something I will never forget.

Our lessons sometimes are for us to stop and appreciate what God has put in front of us,but because everyone is in such a rush people tend to forget and do not stop and even really see what is in front of them. anyways you continue to write your stories as they are wonderful, things in stories if you actually re read then back to your self its like talking and telling you a message, be still, think, hear what you write.

Apply things to help others like you help by writing your planting seeds.

Your an amazing man,apply the same beauty you write about and apply it to your networking,believe Nick.

 

Kathy Hamilton/simikathy.com

Thanks for sharing part of your life with us, Nick.

That was very reminiscent of Steinbeck.  If all of us would spend some time outside and really allow nature into our hearts, it can change our day in a positive way, even in bad weather there's always something new out there to experience.  I think many people have an award-winning book within them if they would take the time to absorb the details of daily life.

Hi Nick,

What a lovely tale of detail and recognition and love of nature.  I woke up when you mentioned the robins and birds .  Naturally they are my favorites.

Thanks for a great story.  Look forward to the next.

God Bless,

Judy