After my trip to the Doctor today, like a good patient I went to the pharmacy to get my prescriptions filled. Why on earth do prescriptions take so long to be filled? How long does is really take to put some antibiotics in a container and some cough syrup in a bottle? I don't understand.

Since I had 45 minutes on my hand and I really didn't feel like hanging around the store I decided to go to the park. I found a bench that looked to the mountains, or in Jersey our poor attempt at mountains. I sat on the bench and it was very still. No breeze, just cool air. I zipped up my coat and just looked.

It's not often that I have the time to just sit and appreciate the beauty of our world. The trees and their majestic color. The old red barn and in the field the brown and black horses. The sky a dark shade of gray-blue and no clouds to be seen. A stranger passed by and offered me a smile, and I smiled back wishing them a nice day. An old couple hobbled up the walking path hand in hand and my heart melted at the sight of them. So tender they were holding hands and hunched over walking so slowly. A young man walked by with his golden retriever who was also aging. The pooch stopped and looked at me with perked ears as if greeting me with a hello. Across the field stood some trees that have already given up their leaves. Their cold skeletons of death standing taller than the houses that flanked them. Makes me see that Winter is coming.

Winter, the only season I wish would skip us. It makes me feel cold and dead. The trees lose their leaves, the flowers cease to be, and it's so very cold. It seems as if I can never bundle myself warmly enough. The snow is the only redeeming quality. I love watching snow fall. I love catching it on my tongue and making snow angels with the boys. Yet it's cold and bitter.

Fall has a distinct smell, I noticed today as I sat on my bench just taking in the world around me. I could smell fires burning in people's homes or leaves burning in someone's back yard. Oh how I love the smell of burning leaves and wood. I'm not sure why but I do. Fresh cut grass also and lavender.

I sat on that bench for over an hour. I lost track of time just looking. Noticing all the things around me. Noticing the life around me, even though some of it is growing dormant. It made me appreciate the fact that my prescriptions took 45 minutes to be filled. For if not, I would have never taken these moments to just sit, watch, listen and smell. Things we often forget to do in this busy world we live in.

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