December 27, 2012 - Is This Winter?

Truly, it is winter - but my garden has not been notified.  These photos were taken today!

 

Today seemed like a rather lazy day.  I spent a fair amount of time working out this morning, getting some good effort in on some very tight muscles.  Then I went to computer work, some correspondence, worked a puzzle - but what I really wanted was a good, long hike.  There was a hint of blue sky seen first thing this morning, and soon it was sunny and lovely.  Okay, it never got up to forty degrees, but it was still lovely!  Sunshine, no wind, mid-thirties - it's difficult to ask much more of a winter day.  And flowers still blooming in my garden.  I wandered around, taking photos of flowers and of things sprouting (a bit frightening, at this time of the year), found the hoofprints I hadn't found yesterday, then went back in to watch a glorious sunset.  (Yes, I have a photo.  No, I decided not to add it to today's collection.)  Doing this work, just for the little while I've been at it, has helped me to keep my eyes open.  And when my eyes are open, my heart tends to open, as well.