Brief encounter

Today has been one of those rare and beautiful autumn

days when it's neither too hot nor too cold,

there's no breeze worth mentioning and all

the leaves are starting to turn to gold.

 

They are just so beautiful.

 

 

And so I took myself off for a mooch around

the lanes as I have been doing of late to see

what was what in the fields round about and

I certainly wasn't disappointed.

 

Much like the lane where I was standing.

 

 

I had been standing quietly for some time watching

an extra large dragon fly circling the meadow

presumably in search of something to eat

when it seemed to, what I can only describe as,

sense my presence.

 

It circled me several times getting ever closer

with each circuit and when I moved off it

flew alongside me a few feet away for quite some

distance.  It was then that the little voice

in my head said "Put out your hand"

and to my utter surprise and delight it landed

right there in my palm.

 

Sadly not the actual event as I wasn't carrying my camera and
anyway it would have been very difficult to take a photo with
one of these in my hand.

 

 

Spooky of what?

All the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end

and if it hadn't been for the arrival of a

big and very noisy tractor I would probably still

be standing there now utterly spellbound.