Breaking the law can pay off

[seal]

Today I violated a law, my first violation of American law, but it was well worth it.
I took a long walkabout, keeping a steady eye on the mountains to the west. I walked for 10 miles or so, and reached a nice big meadow, filled with various flowers. A sign told me it was private property and to stay away..but something made me violate this and walk into the high grass.
For all my moomin-loving friends on LJ, you all know that the character of Snufkin just hates signs about private property, he firmly thinks you should be able to walk anywhere. This is very Scandinavian I tell you (and Snufkin is sort of Scandinavian I guess..). Now, I know about protecting the landscape and such matters, and I can assure that I treaded carefully and did not pick or bend a straw, and I will probably not do it again...but it was SO well worth it.
I walked for a little while and admired the many flowers some of the rainy days had enabled to live in the high summer sun...and then I stopped dead, because there they were!

At first I thought they were just another pair of the lovely big ass dragonflies that inhabit this State..but these were just a bit rounder in their body shape, and the wings had a slightly different moving pattern, and when they came closer I saw.
So shimmering beautiful, but small in an almost freakish way... association patterns head towards insects instead of birds sometimes when you see them far away.
I was completely still and was graced with their presence a while longer, the pair of Hummingbirds, and my whole chest area was just filled with this moment.

It was pure magic.

Comments

[usuakari.livejournal.com]

You flouter of rules, you. I think Snufkin would be proud, but the Hemulens at the Dept. of Homeland Security are more likely to arrest you for attempting to recruit the Humming-birds to the Taliban (or something equally stupid). ;)

Sounds very nice. How's the rest of it going?

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

Hummingbirds, dragonflies, and fireflies
are about the closest thing to faeries
I've seen in this world.

And I'm sure you've violated some anti-
sodomy laws, at least in Utah. ;)

[kejn.livejournal.com]

i don't know about colorado, but down here you could get shot for trespassing. shot, and then asked what the hell you thought you were doing...

[northern]

*hugs you and eeeeees*

I'm happy for you!