I was walking the dog through the woods, early this morning.

Early Sunday mornings are a great time: nobody about.

I could tell I was the first to be treading the multiple paths that criss-cross the woods, this morning, by the amount of cobwebs that I walked into.

As I walked, I was thinking about nerdy stuff – as I often do.  AX25 Packet Radio links and the issues I’m having with getting some connections, if you must know.

I do a lot of thinking in those woods. Some of my best ideas have come to me whilst I been walking the dog through there. If I have a problem, more often than not, I have solved it whilst traipsing along the many paths that have been worn into place by the footsteps of a thousand dog-walkers. All thinking their own thoughts… some nerdy, some not, I am guessing.

I wandered along, deep in thought.

And then the rising sun reached a point where it’s light lit everything around me with a warm orange glow.

Suddenly torn from my nerdy thoughts, I stopped and took in my surroundings.  Orange sunlight dappled playfully through the leaves – still green but with a few brown autumnal colours starting to appear. The silence was delightful, with the warm breeze  causing just a few rustles in the branches of the trees.  Saber stood at my side, ears up, motionless but alert, her nose thrust high in the air. She could smell something.  About 20 metres away, I could see a Muntjack deer. Saber couldn’t see it from her low vantage point. The deer was stood motionless too, aware of our presence and not wanting to give away it’s location.

The deer; the trees; the sun; the stillness… this was nature at her finest.  A perfect morning.

I walked on.

“Ahh, now, what if I reduce the packet size using PACLEN…”