{"id":2429,"date":"2015-09-27T22:53:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T13:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2015-09-30T01:06:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T16:06:43","slug":"thistle-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/27\/thistle-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Thistle heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aozasayama. An hour and 10 minutes up to the No-Name Pass, another 20 minutes up to the summit. A lot of mist.\u00a0 Sometimes you just kind of melt into it, emptying your mind, and you keep up a pretty good pace.<\/p>\n

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But back down along the ridge, then over to the Jizo Pass, and down the mountain the other way, we slowed down considerably.<\/p>\n

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It always happens. Something grabs your eye. Your eye focuses. Then your eye starts searching out other things to focus on.<\/p>\n

There are things to see and do, you realize, and you’ve got no good reason to hurry. You have time<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Time to stop and listen in to what these three guys have gotten together to talk about.<\/p>\n

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Time to wink at the pretty faces. Time to wait and see if they’ll wink back.<\/p>\n

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And you have to stop, don’t you, when a tree challenges you to a muscle-flexing contest?<\/p>\n

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Time to stop and feel the autumn.<\/p>\n

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Of course, time for a delicious lunch.<\/p>\n

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And time to chat with Mr. Jizo. Time to thank him for keeping an eye on the mountain—and those that walk it.<\/p>\n

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Time to watch this fellow, time to wonder who<\/em> he is.<\/p>\n

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Time to enjoy the colors.<\/p>\n

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TIme to wonder what the chestnut’s\u00a0all aglow\u00a0about.<\/p>\n

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Almost back to the parking lot, we came across these curvy bells.<\/p>\n

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And the monshirocho <\/em>(Cabbage White) certainly seemed to be taking their<\/em> time with them. Maybe because they knew they had them all for themselves. The numbers were good.<\/p>\n

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And the monshirocho <\/em>were made to get to the bottom of things with ease.<\/p>\n

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And then we came to the thistles. At first, they just looked like a patch of scraggly weeds.<\/p>\n

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Up closer, they were a bit more fascinating.<\/p>\n

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Especially\u00a0to the bees.<\/p>\n

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Without the butterly’s nimble proboscis, they had little choice but to dive in.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

\"150923_aozasa_azami4_450\"<\/a>Sometimes they had to flex their muscles.<\/p>\n

Seemed to be a muscle-flexing sort of day.<\/p>\n

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I have to admit I prefered the bee’s approach to heaven to the butterfly’s.<\/p>\n

And on the way home, I kept thinking what a glorious day it\u00a0must have\u00a0been to be a bee.<\/p>\n

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