TheBanyanTree: Northern Lights

[NancyIee at aol.com]

Or, perhaps I should name it "Southern Cross", as I am still in Florida.  
They had snow in Minnesota last week, six or seven inches. My blood has grown 
too tropical for that. To live in Minnesota in the winter, one needs Johnnie 
Walker anti-freeze.

Anyway, here I am; still on the beach, now waiting for the mammouth sea 
turtles to get the urge to come ashore to lay their 100 eggs. They do it 
every Spring, and if I'm really lucky, snoozing in a hammock beachside on the 
right night, I perchance may see giant Mama come ashore.

My daughter, Rose, and I saw such a event two Springs ago, around a yawning 
four A.M., a grey tank lumbered ashore, making spraddled tracks on the wet 
sand to the dune line. Then, digging with clawed feet, she moved the earth, 
and left her precious deposit.  Slowly, methodically, scooping the sand back 
over her treasure, she turned and returned to the sea.

For thousands of years they have marched ashore in their lonely treks. Their 
numbers dwindle. Man, you know.  Man seems to be at the root of all 
"disappearences."

Passenger Doves, Gray Whales, Gorillas, Pandas, Florida Panthers, Manatees, 
and perhaps the giant Sea Turtles . . .dwindle and gone.

But, for one more Spring, I'll take a thermos of coffee, a snack, and go up 
to the beachside hammock, to wait, to snooze, to keep watch, maybe get lucky 
one more time.

nancyLee
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