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    I often wonder if people, these days, see the beauty that surrounds them.

    Sometimes you can just stare across a lake and only see the lake. When you look deep enough, you will see so much more.

    I feel that so many people don’t breathe in what they are seeing. If they would, everything wouldn’t look so bleak and “day-by-day.”

    There are a lot of attractive things right under our noses, and we are so desensitized that we miss out on simple things that are meant to be noticed.

    Take a good look …

    See something that wouldn’t be noticed?

    If the McDonald’s sign is the first thing you see in the above photo, then you are either hungry or not open to seeing what lies beneath.

    If the tiny spec of a fisherman is what you noticed first, then you’ve just seen what you need to look around and see all the time. Do you see how each tree’s

reflection in the water shows a different vision of that tree?

    Then, there are the flowers. Do you just drive past them and comment, “Oh those are pretty,” then drive away?

    When I was out at Bonita Lakes taking photographs recently, I noticed one car – only one car – that slowed down to a standstill. and I looked up to make sure they weren’t stopping just because they thought I was in the way. Then I saw the woman smile, with her face right up against the passenger’s window of the car. She may have been smiling at my interest in the flowers or she could have been smiling at the flowers. I will never know, but either way she saw something that pleased her.

        Her husband gingerly driving her past them, letting her gaze upon them, said a lot about him, as well.

    My question is: “Does anyone else see these things, or is it just me and that one couple who noticed?”