Spring things

Pardon me if I'm a bit reflective this morning.

As of this past weekend, we have a new perspective on the walk out our driveway.

The birch trees near the mailbox were dead.

Limbs kept falling off, either in the field or on the road over the past couple of years.

Our neighbor, Jim Taylor, decided it was time to take the trees down and make way for some young 'uns.

He's planning to plant a row of black walnuts on the west edge of his pasture/hay field.

In the meantime, we have a new, unobstructed view of the Cabinet Mountains and of that beautiful scene across Jim's field.

It strikes me that there's clarity now in the landscape.

Seems like that's the way it is when we have to adopt new perspectives in our own life's landscape.

For the longest time, obstructions blocking overall views tend to skew our thinking.

We march on aimlessly trying to work through situations where answers are never quite clear to us. 

Once the situation becomes clear and uncluttered, though, our thoughts can show us the way, so to speak.

There's a certain comfort in such times, just as there is with the above scene.