December 18, 2012 - The desert in winter

Wallula Gap/Columbia River

Badger Mountain

Today was a difficult day.  Thankfully, it was filled with beauty.  So many shadows playing on the hills, so much sun filtering through clouds, new snow on the distant mountains...and still, roses in bloom.

The difficulty today is one of healing - a healing foot, a healing hip, a healing knee - and none of them happening rapidly enough for my taste.  I am, perhaps, a bit weary of pain, weary of the time it takes to do PT, weary of not being well enough to simply jump out of the car without thinking.  On days like this, I am so grateful for the opportunity to look out a window and see...almost anything.  This morning was filled with pelicans and swans, this afternoon with what a friend of mine calls LBB's - little brown birds.  I cut fresh rosemary and sage, and a sprig or two of gaillardia that was still in bloom, and zebrina hollyhocks that had been seriously pruned by the deer.  The act of writing these things down has made me smile.  I am content.