Sunset Wave Patterns: Unexpected Nature Joy

Watching Lake Winneconne waves at sunset from my Dad’s dock in central Wisconsin (upstream from Lake Winnebago, on the Wolf River system) is a favorite past time for this Nature’s Guy. Usually, my favorite are high whitecaps generated by long blowing and fierce winds from the West. This particular evening, though, the air was still, barely causing any movement on the water’s surface. Yet, lines and squares and rectangles and patterns emerged. Sitting on the dock at the lake, I found myself meditatively immersed in the subtile energy and wave patterns of the water, especially as their edges and centers captured and reflected the pinks, oranges, blues, and purples of the sunset, clouds, and sky.

These colorful, subtile wave patterns were not what I expected to see that evening, yet they were a welcome gift of joy that I needed and wanted. The peace I felt watching them, the grateful meditation I sank into, and the lessons I learned that evening from Nature, is yet another good example of how we can #FindNatureJoy in unexpected places and in unusual ways, when we keep ourselves open to what Nature and the Divine wants to give us.

Sunset wave patterns,
colorful and peaceful, bring
unexpected joy.