May 10, 2013
Posing - proudly - with her newborn brood.
Happy Mother's Day!!!!
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As has become my continuing practice - I'll be enjoying the weekend quiet. Will return and begin again on Sunday.
May 9, 2013 
The skies darkening...the rumble of distant thunder. And still - I stayed. Eyes riveted on the scene unfolding. Feet rooted to the ground.
I knew it was time to seek shelter...and - yet - I couldn't move.
It was the green. It was the color. It was - as if - I'd never seen anything quite like it..ever before. It was the light. It was the lack of it. It was - as if - I'd never seen so much brightness in spite of all that was getting so dark.
My sweet pup - trembled. She quivered and shook and huddled in close...preparing for the storm to come.
I knew it was time to get myself doing...but - I wasn't yet done.
That first real rain. The explosion of so many greens. Their beauty. Their color-filled majesty. Their splendor and wonder.
And then - with one loud clap of overhead thunder - I knew it was time. Me and my sweet pup - together - made a mad and crazy dash for shelter....where we found ourselves safe and dry.
May 8, 2013 
It occurred to me - how similar they are. The colors of new spring...and those of old fall. At first glance - they look so very different. Upon a second look - they are really so much the same.
It reminded me that with each ending..something new begins...and with each new beginning..something old ends. When one door closes..a window opens. With each autumn leaf that falls...a new bud blossoms.
We shed our old selves...to grow into the new. We make space...for our new becomings. And yet - at the heart of it all....our colors remain true.
Endings and beginnings. Doors and windows. Old leaves and new. One season...and always - another. So different...and yet so much the same.
Nature. Spring 2013. | in Inspiration, Leaves, Musings., Nature, Self-Discovery, Spring 2013 
