Before I forget—because the world is strange and memories fade faster than they should—let me tell you about the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.

Tall Cool ☺ne saw it too, so at least I know it wasn’t just one of those overly vivid moments my imagination sometimes produces.

It was the morning of March 2. I remember because I had a mammogram appointment that day, which meant we didn’t have to start our walk quite so early. The light was already settling across the fields when we set out.

You know that pasture on Union Church Road—the one with the long driveway that curves up around the field? There’s a pond on the far side, and across the road sits that big brick house. Usually there are half a dozen black cows grazing out there like quiet witnesses to the morning.

In that pasture stand two trees.

And from one of them, I swear on my Bible, white smoke started pouring out.

Not a little mist. Real smoke. The kind you see when someone starts a fire and tosses leaves on top—thick, billowing, waiting for the flame to break through.

I stopped mid-step.“What in the world was that?” I asked. “Did you see that?”

Tall Cool ☺ne looked back at the tree. “Yeah… I saw it,” he said. “But I don’t know what it was.”

We both waited for flames.

None came.

The smoke simply vanished.

We kept walking, both of us a little rattled but trying to act like sensible people who hadn’t just watched a tree start smoking for no reason at all.

Then it happened again.

Another puff. Rising straight up from the same tree like something ancient trying to send a message skyward.

For a moment it looked almost deliberate… like Indian smoke signals.

And then, just like before—

the smoke disappeared.

No fire. No sound. No explanation.

Just two people standing in the quiet of a morning field, wondering if sometimes the world still whispers small surprises in ways we’ve forgotten how to understand.


Has anything like that ever happened to you? Something weird and unexplainable but awesomeness that you’ve never seen before? Share with me, I’d love to read about it!

Cheers,