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The sun broke over the mountain as he waited there in the brisk morning, so cold his breath showed on each exhale. He looked at the wonder around him as a deer walked out into the meadow. The steam rolling off the back of the large buck as he grazed on the dew topped grass. He watched as the deer gracefully picked his way to eat the ice frosted clover. He remembered as a boy how his father had taught him to hunt. He remembered back upon each season's kill and wondered now why he took such glory in it, when the glory, for him now, was to watch how graceful and beautiful these animals could be.

As his mind went back in time he thought about growing up poor with parents who worked so hard each day to put food on the table for him and the rest of the family. He is not sure that he ever thanked them for that but he knows that how he lived his life was in direct lines of how he was raised. Perhaps that was the way to show appreciation. He remembers the woodshed that father would take him and his brothers when they were bad. He smiled now thinking of his gentle father with tears running down his face as he spanked his boys for being bad. His mother was the true disciplinarian and her word was law and yet she had a gentleness about her that made people seek her out for advice and help. He remembers when his younger brother was killed and how mama and daddy cried, he was too young to understand death but he cried to as his parent's pain was so apparent.

He sat there and remembered the first time he saw her. It was the fifth grade and she was a new student. She had golden blond ringlets and a daisy dress and he fell in love. Everyone wanted to be her friend and due to his shyness he backed away from her, afraid she would reject his friendship. He remembers the day at recess as he sat on the stone wall by the school, just looking out at the field covered with wild flowers and dreaming of being anywhere but school, when she joined him and asked him if she could sit with him. From that day forward they were inseparable. He remembered after graduation, going to her house in his best set of clothes, ring in his pocket and scared out of his mind. He remembers getting down on his knee and before he could even ask her, she was jumping up and down screaming, "Yes, yes!" Her parents came out to see what was going on and suddenly everybody was hugging. To this day, he never did get a chance to ask her to be his wife, yet they did get married. He smiles when he remembers

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