About Two Special People, and a Dog

How can anyone possibly ignore nature and what it has to offer when there are scenes like this to stir the imagination? Photo by Louisa Ielo

We have always wanted to found our own village –   Louisa and I. A place where we, as like minded people, can reside and enjoy the simple things in life – wildflowers, abstract images in Nature, quietude, where motorists don’t speed and every day, regardless of weather,  is a special day. Louisa is a good friend of mine and she and her husband, Bill, enjoy a beautiful setting at Pleasant Bay. We often e-mail back and forth about things she has found on her walks with Sayde. Sorry – that should be Princess Sayde. Sayde is their dog and if you check into her blog, aptly named Reflections on Pleasant Bay, you will sense that appreciation she has for wild nature and her understanding of biodiversity and how every living thing she comes across has a purpose in the natural scheme of things. I have been trying to inspire people to the concept of biodiversity for decades, and often what I get back in return are blank stares. “Whatever are you talking about, Man? I don’t understand a word of that drivel!” Yet, Louisa  has managed to grasp the meaning, entirely on her own, with no help from me.  Her blog and her convictions are an inspiration for anyone who reads her writings. She desperately tried to achieve that inspiration where they used to live, but it was a challenge in a community of noise, fast cars, unexplained hollers in the darkness of the night, as well as litter and questionable element along her favourite trails. Her blog bespeaks of the tranquility both she and her husband were seeking and I think they have found it here at Pleasant Bay. The accompanying photo is one of my favourites, taken on one of her many walks, and illustrates her ability to capture the abstract in nature that so many of us miss or even bother to acknowledge. And, I think she has taken the first step in her search for that special village. This one has a gate.