Monday Moods: A Little Something

Somedays all it takes to make someone's mood better is a little something, a kind word - just the right thing at the right time.  Last week I went out to Huntley Meadows park, for a walk in the woods and boardwalks over the the wetlands.  I was too late for the morning birds, the 500-plus millimeter lens crowd was leaving as I was coming in. Photographers with lenses that cost more than my car. They know when the birding is at it's best.  It was one of the first warm days of spring, the landscape is that shade of wet-brown that happens post hard freeze winter, with only the earliest sprigs of green.  The biggest sign of life was what you can hear, it is frog mating season, look back at last Tuesday's extra blog for a listen. It was a good walk, but nothing special. Nothing that would lift my spirits.    

Near the back, as I was turning the corner to return to my car, I noticed this painted rock, a simple message, left there intentionally to remind random strangers that we are all rockstars in our own way. It made me smile. It reminded me of my painting rocks in 2020, to cheer people up, to encourage them to vote, leaving them carefully placed along the trails here on Mt. Eagle and in Dyke Marsh - my daily walks in the year of covid isolation. I hope that one of those rocks did for someone, what this one did for me, a little something that reminded me every day, is a good day in some way.