Saturday, March 21, 2015

“You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald

I haven't gotten out my camera in a while. Shame. I get far too lazy sometimes with it and just grab my phone instead. Mental note to do better. It's been mostly dreary and dark lately, but there have been a few sunny days recently. Most days the dreary doesn't bother me. I've always liked rain.

It is nice to have some sun though, and I'm sure it's good for my mental and physical state to get some vitamin D after a winter spent inside.

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Dust of Snow

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.

-Robert Frost

Right now last year I was taking pictures of daffodils that had sprung up in my garden.. This year I went out and walked in the most snow we've had in Georgia since the blizzard of 1993.

I like that weather is unpredictable. I was dearly missing the summer all week; I was dreaming of summer storms, beach walks and woodsy picnics. Maybe it was something to do with the 60+ hour work week I had been scheduled for and was dreading. The good lord must have seen fit that take a little time off, because I've been at home more this week because of snow than I have in a long time.

It's reminded me to be happy in the season I'm in and not wish for another. ..not saying I won't need reminded of that in mid March- the month that never ends.

I did build a snowman.. he's of modest size, but slightly larger than he looks in this picture.. he's about hip hight on me.

Monday, December 29, 2014

"If it's the mountains' bending rivers
Then you will have them.
If it's the wish to run away, then I will grant it.
Take whatever what you think of,
while I go gas up the truck.
Pack the old love letters up,
We will read them when we forget why we left here."

Monday, December 15, 2014

Prone to wander.

I would like for a large part of my life to be spent driving through beautiful places. Maybe sometimes I could stop for 20 minutes or so to sit and look. That's what I would like.
When I have nothing pressing to do, and time isn't being it's usual fleeting self, I sometimes drive nowhere. I drive to my favorite valley, or tiny town and sit for a few minutes. Sometimes I don't even get out of my car. I just park and roll down my windows.
Last year I went on a weekend trip with a few friends.. our stay in the place was okay, but nothing special. On the way home I pulled off the highway and drove a few miles to this lake. We only stayed maybe twenty minutes.

The way home was best part of the trip

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