Day 131: 5 Minute Freewrite: Tuesday - Prompt: solitude
Prompt by @mariannewest. Words by @wordymouth.
She walked passing only a few other couples on their way down.
She smiled, waved, and appropriately nodded. Not too bad for a Tuesday. There could be more people on the trail.
In the canopy, the limbs bustled together in a shallow breeze. At her level, the ground, rocks, and ferns stayed perfectly still. Everything was so green. She listened for a sound. Hearing none, she made some noise grinding off a rock with her boot.
Off trail, a large Douglas Pine lay on its side covering the last melt of snow and ice. A Carpenter ant wandered the bare surface climbing over the beetle tracks exposed in the wood by erosion. It carried a bit of seed over the pine. She waited for it to pass over the side, then sat down on the wood.
She looked across the forest floor to the far side of the canyon where a waterfall fell into a green pool. She breathed in slowly. Then she breathed out. The cathedral of solitude gave her rest.
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