Autumn Leaves

It's a rainy day here, but there is a wonderful display of golden autumn leaves on the tree just outside my patio door, this morning. Beautiful to behold!

My mind travels back to other autumns where the reds, oranges and golds have dotted many miles of different horizons, over the years.

It is amazing how we can 'take pictures' with our minds, relegate them to a certain 'album' in our thought processes and recall them instantly. Did we ever sort through them, or assign a certain place for them in our minds? No, not knowingly.

Think about this for a moment.

This is only one 'category', that of autumn leaves. How many other 'categories' have been established in our minds?

Consider the lakes and rivers, mountains and prairies, that we have seen. The images of them are hidden, somewhere deep in our minds. We can recall them instantly, just as easily.

Sometimes, it takes a 'trigger' to bring them back to life. That 'trigger' can be a mental picture of another lake, river, mountain or prairie, or it can be a photograph. Sometimes, it is a word about something that arouses our recall.

It is amazing how our thoughts never seem to get cluttered, considering the volume of wild and wonderful imagery fed into it, over time.

That imagery is not like excess baggage that weighs us down, either. We have no problem carrying around all of the pictures that we have taken with our minds and stored in our thoughts, over the years.

The pictures are perfectly placed, in an orderly fashion.

We might begin to wonder how many images have disappeared over the years, because image overload might have caused the photographic 'computers' in our thought processes to crash.

Perhaps we have some 'genius' ability that allows a 'primary' image to take precedence over all of the others, in each case. Maybe the other images go into 'sub-files' files in our minds.

Maybe our minds actually do function like computers, in more ways than one.

Enjoy the beauty of the autumn leaves, as that will soon pass. Take mental photographs and store them in your mind for later reflection.