Savoring

Knowing the time is short, the things that I really enjoy about the East coast are jumping out at me...
...the rock walls everywhere. I wonder whose hands so laboriously piled them, the stories they tell, the people just like me tackling the back-breaking work of farming and settling a new land far from anything familiar...
...the cozy, tree framed lanes with mottled sunshine winding up and down holding hidden treasure just around the bend - and potholes that keep you from getting too nostalgic...
the ever-changing scenery - hills and dales - resplendent for fall in fancy dress like nowhere else...
...the wonderful old - truly old compared to the rest of the country - homes built with so much character and finished with such beautiful artistic elements, their walls filled with remnants of lives gone by ...
...summer trips to the ocean to listen to the surf and watch the kids and grandkids boogie board and dig sand castles and bury each other up to their noses...
...Monhegan Island - what a wonderful, magical week that was! It will stay with me always...

I always tell the kids it would truly be tragic to have no sense of loss when leaving a place behind...

Sky Show

We went tonight with Lyss, Matt, and the kids into Manchester to watch fireworks. It was an incredible, full 30 minute display like I have never seen before. They used the bridge as a launching pad and It lit up the park like daytime during some of the more intense portions. Impressive! At one point, an airliner was coming in for a landing at the nearby airport and looked as if it was passing right through the shooting streams and pops of color! That drew the ooh's and ahh's from us all! After working our way through the massive crowds, making a quick stop at Taco Bell, we made it home by midnight...what a fun evening!

Choices

eyes on the wide, straight road ahead, avoiding the fields and paths that meander and draw .. that hold hidden experience for those who dare to walk a different path…giving up the good for the new, the safe for the unknown, the harmony for the discord…

Today

Today was beautiful! Warm but not hot, just the way I like it! I packed, worked in the office, packed some more, made four deliveries with Russ, and then he brought Jmiah to a friend's house to have a camp fire and spend the night in his fort. It's raining now, so I can imagine him with the sound of those raindrops playfully jumping off the roof overhead, snug in his sleeping bag with the woods wrapped around him as he drifts closer to sleep whispering stories with his friend...sounds nice.

The bridal wreath are blooming gloriously, their white coated branches reaching up and then gracefully arching their necks to the ground. I am going to plant a whole hedge of them when we settle in at our new place! Their blooms last such a short time, but early spring holds promise, and there is something magical in their flowers and form!