A Top Ten Day ... Maybe the last for 2010

It's funny to have watched the news channel I watch this last two weeks.  When the weather comes ... it's always "going to be" a "top ten day" of the year!!  And today really is!!

And with today's date, October 14, it truly could be the last of this year. 

So, my day, my soul, my heart led me to a drive.  Driving, for me, is a sedative.  A relaxer.  A calmer.  And, I gotta have my music loud, while the roads unwind.  Did I mention, that the car I drive is a convertible...truly, my lover.  Since I have yet to travel / ride a motorcycle (which has been a top 5 fantasy for most of my life) ... I am fully content (ecstatic) to drive a car where the top goes down!

Freedom.  Wind, blowing the long blonde hair.  Nature.  No pretense whatsoever.  Bare.  Natural.  What you see on the roadside, is real.  And you feel a part of it.  Sometimes, you feel special, as if you are the only one really noticing.  And the world speaks back to you. 

The Harvest.  Some fields are still tall with the now-brittle, brown corn stalks; others have been harvested and mulched giving the ground cover, protection from the winter to come.  The grasses that have been a gorgeous green ALL summer, are still green ... so when you find that farmland, it still takes your breath away in the contrasting of green and brown.  Hay bales, have always been a source of joy for me ... there are plenty of them now out in the fields ... it's pretty, to come upon open land and find these sources of joy dotting the fields as far as you can see.  And even prettier, when that land is not completely flat.  When the land rolls into hills. 

For some reason today, I "played" with the 'farmers'!  There were tractors .... BIG tractors out everywhere on those lands ... they too, know that there are so few days like today left in this 2010 year.  I laughed at the sight of them ... honked my horn as I drove by a few of them ... wondered, and even wished for, what a long day on some farmland would be like.  I am sure, that persons who farm land, know how to appreciate that land; and probably know how to be open to most of nature out there. 

I wondered what it would be like, at the end of a long farm day, at the end of a day just like today, to lye in the arms of a man who understood a hard days work, appreciated the throbbing of nature, and was grateful to be lying next to the woman he loved gazing at the stars .... from that wide open piece of land.  Knowing, it never gets any better than that ... but it gets better and better with being in that.

It was a magical drive today. 

I know the sun setting tonight is going to be good too.

So, in two more hours ... I'm driving again.  Because, I'm pretty sure, this may be the last day / evening of the year where I can let my hair fly free without shivering against the cooling temperatures that are on their way.  I need one more drive ... to fill my soul.