What A Wonderful World (LL)

There is just something about walking in the countryside that rejuvenates my spirit. I can physically feel my worries sliding off my shoulders and the fog in my brain clearing as my lungs fill with fresh air.

Walking from Stow on the Wold to Bourton on the Water today we took the long way around - passing through forests, pastures, charming Cotswolds villages, open countryside, footpaths, proper roads, horse trails and river banks.

I was captivated by the flowers and the berries, including a long road surrounded on both sides by blackberry brambles. The sound of the birds chirping in the trees and the babbling brooks breathed life back into me. A pheasant flying suddenly from the brush, the aroma of a floral hedge, the astoundingly enormous Hereford cow, the symmetry of the plowed fields. My eyes appreciated it all. My soul rejoiced.

"I see trees of green, red roses too

I see them bloom for me and you

And I think to myself what a wonderful world."

-Louis Armstrong, What a Wonderful World