[at-l] Invasion foiled

[glendahubbard at yahoo.com (Glenda Hubbard)]

What a delightful story! Keep them coming.

Sparrow

--- Richard C Evans <optimyst@gmail.com> wrote:

> True story from a Boy Scout High Adventure week on
> the Trail:
> 
> This experience was just off the Trail in NC when
> the boy scouts I was
> leading begged off the section that included
> Standing Indian and
> Albert Mountain (wimps!) so we took a short day and
> a blue-blaze
> shortcut and set up camp in the early afternoon
> along the Nantahala
> River.  They were excited to be near the end of the
> backpacking part
> of their High Adventure week and to get on with the
> white water
> rafting at NOC which I wisely kept to the end as
> bribery to keep them
> motivated on the backpacking segment.
> 
> So with time to kill and on an easy day, I had one
> of the most
> Nature-connected experiences I've ever had.  I lazed
> on a moss-covered
> tree root which formed a perfect seat along the
> shore and watched the
> activities of the river rolling by, which included
> frolicking scouts,
> and a mother and her son on the far shore from the
> campground on that
> side.  The little tyke was skipping rocks, and due
> to the vegetation
> between us I was not visible to him.  Eventually he
> started skipping
> rocks in my direction, imperiling me, but I found to
> my surprise that
> I was frozen into the scene and felt entirely safe
> and unable to speak
> or move despite the rocks clattering ashore right
> and left, such was
> my contentment with my existence at that moment. 
> Eventually he
> stopped and my attention shifted to a couple of
> rocks on the far shore
> which were blinking like strobes as the late
> afternoon sun struck the
> water lapping their sides.  As I stared at the sight
> they
> metamorphosed into two spaceships, one a flying
> saucer, the other
> cigar-shaped and I imagined them as an armada of
> earth bound ships
> from outer space.  As I had grossly enlarged them as
> a part of this
> hallucination, my reverie was snapped several
> minutes later when a
> Jupiter-sized chipmunk hopped onto the incoming
> flying saucer.  Talk
> about a monster from outer space ? this one saved
> the Earth from
> invasion!
> 
> Happy trails,
> 
> Solar Bear
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