Reblogged from The Magical World of G. Michael Vasey:

In recent weeks, I find that being outdoors in nature is where I want to be. The sound of bird’s singing, the bats flying around, the trees… I find it all so intoxicatingly beautiful. The feeling it gives me is indescribable and yet, I am greedy for more. My favorite time is dusk and so I will slip out and take the 2km walk around the castle. I even have a favorite tree – a huge conker tree – that I will stop, touch and talk with for a while. I ask my tree some questions and tell it my troubles – whatever they are. Trees are such good listeners!

Last night, it was truly magnificent timing as the Sun began to set. The sky was streaked with all colors of pink and red reflected in the clouds and when you can get the silhouette of the trees against that sky – the image is truly marvelous.

Walking through the trees I feel safe. Home. Grounded. Secure.

It struck me that this feeling is new. At least as it relates to this place. I always had that feeling at home – especially in more remote places like the north York Moors, the Wolds, the deserted beaches towards spurn point, the west coast of Scotland and in particular, on the Island of Eigg. I even felt that awe and feeling of belonging in Texas under that huge starlit sky, out in California watching the Pacific ocean and especially in the Arizona desert. But here, in the Czech Republic? It is a new sensation.

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