Looking over my photos of my move this morning, I realized how much I am missing these friends who moved at the same time. Little family get togethers are very special things.
Category: Mindfulness
It’s Sunday!
It’s a new day, new week, clean slate, fresh start, the sun is coming up! I’m not a morning person as such, but these pictures from Ocracoke Island just after sunrise remind me that it’s worth getting up and meeting the day!
Secret Gardens
Do you have a secret garden…a place you wander to in your mind? We’re hunkering down for another snow storm here, but tonight I’m thinking about this garden I visited near San Francisco and a fragment of a poem..”it’s always April in my mind.” Would you like to walk here with me in your mind tonight?
Nature’s Beautiful Snow Sculptures
Driving home from my weekend in Peoria at my sister’s proved to be quite a challenge last Monday. When I hit Iowa City, Interstate 80 turned into an icy washboard with bumper to bumper trucks driving 2o mph. I learned how to drive on snowy roads in northern Illinois and just couldn’t see any reason to be going so slow, so I headed off to the north to take the country roads and was rewarded with some beautiful scenery. I also got to check off something on my life list: visit the town of Belle Plaine. I love the area on I80 around the exits for Belle Plaine and What Cheer and have wanted to see these Iowa towns ever since I first drove to Ames from Indiana. The farmland here is so sensuously rolling, dotted with grazing cows and sculpted with contour farming. Not far from Belle Plaine, I even saw a winter rainbow to the side of the setting sun!
