Ways of Seeing

Until today, I didn't really see.

Today, I put on a new pair of glasses over my eyes with new lenses and everything snapped into focus.

I stood atop the Lake Cheston dam, looked down some fifteen feet to the water's edge, and saw two bluets chasing one another.  Mind you, a bluet is about 28 millimeters long.  Then I noticed the single Rambur's Forktail (about 34 millimeters long).  Far to my left, I picked out a wheeled pair of Autumn Meadowhawks (about 35 millimeters long) looking for just the right leaf. 

This is amazing!  This is 20/20 vision!

Filled with fall fever, I headed over to the campus late this afternoon to watch light move across stones and down trees.  I saw three boys playing soccer at All Saints', ginko leaves yellowing, and a little lime-green plane (which my friend Bill identified as an Aircam, "designed to fly low and slow with extreme visibility and the security of two engines") buzzing us all.

Those two flyers surely had an amazing view.  But so did I.

Correction: so do I!