I was out walking today and had my phone with me as usual, not for an emergency call if I fall and hurt myself because I don’t get service in most of the area around the lakes, but for picture taking.
Most of the time, I’ve been here almost three months now, there is nothing new to snap, how many glass topped lake views can a blog sustain?
Or tall, straight up in the air, pines?
Or Gopher mounds which turned out today not to only be Gopher mounds at all!
I caught, out of the corner of my eye as I climbed yet another hill during my race against the daylight, a steady movement of bright green fragments of leaves. At first I thought they were green winged insects of some sort but then I had to move out of oncoming traffic’s way so I couched down to further investigate the journeying of so many tiny creatures.
They were a double line of red ants, some carried loads, others were nodding encouragement to their compatriots racing in the opposite direction.
I followed the empty handed ones to their source, which was a large mound of sand resembling, what I had been told was, a Gopher hill.
Have you ever watched a line of red ants? Red are easier to observe because they are larger. I missed my children I would have loved to share this sight of such industrious workers.
Their greetings along the way, the items they were carrying, the speed they were going!
A perfect teaching moment!
“Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.” (Proverbs 6:6-8)
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