2. That I only have to pedal 5 minutes from my home to ride past scenes like this. What a great way to start my day. And to work off a little of the above.
3. An employer and a family, that when I am pining for the mountains and the weather is clear and the temperature in the low 70s and the humidity low, look at me and say "GO" even though I have other things I should be doing.
4. Butterflies. Daphne loved butterflies. She grew up in Harlem and never saw them. When she moved upstate she was absolutely beguiled by them. Whenever I see them, I think of her, which used to put me in a bad place. Now, I smile and say hello. Happiness on so many levels.
5. 25 pounds of blueberries - picked, eaten, washed, eaten, baked into pie, eaten, and frozen for future pies and muffins.
I am again reminded that the most beautiful things in our lives are the simplest of gifts - free and available to everyone who chooses to stop long enough to appreciate them.
ReplyDeleteSimple gifts. It is my theme song. Why people choose to live in chaos I will never understand.
DeleteI love that chocolate bouquet! What a great idea!
ReplyDeleteI'm happy that you've had such a good week.
I am saving the vase and sticks with the hope of passing this idea on. But knowing me, I will eat it before I give it : )
Delete25 lbs of blueberries - I cannot even fathom what that looks like!
ReplyDeleteThe butterflies made me smile - my grandmother adored them and after she passed, I found an entire dresser (yes, 4 drawers) completely stuffed full of photos of butterflies she had taken throughout her life. It was such an amazing gift.
25 pounds is not all that much - 4 medium sized beach pails and each pail makes 3 to 4 pies.
DeleteThat is a wonderfully sweet story about your grandmother. I think I would have liked her.
For someone who has never picked blueberries (they don't exactly grow in Wyoming...in fact, in the part I grew up in, nothing much except sage brush and juniper trees grow), 25 lbs sounds like an obscene amount. I'm not sure that I have ever eaten a blueberry pie either. Blasphemy! I will have to go out and hunt down a blueberry pie immediately!
DeleteActually, my grandmother would have liked you very much. She was kind and caring and incredibly fair and open minded for her time - her funeral was standing room only, that's how many people's lives she touched.
. . .uhm, I'm sorry, stopped "listening" after bouquet of chocolate. ;-)
ReplyDeletelovely, as usual.
Hi Friend!
ReplyDeleteLove all of this, as usual...
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