Saying farewell to the sun
Today was mostly spent out and about doing chores, having PT, paying attention to how my husband is progressing (relatively well, I think) and getting some paperwork done. In the midst of that mundane activity, I wandered out into the garden. Most of the ground covers are approaching full bloom. The honeybees are busy, and plentiful. And something out back nibbled off several of the cucumber plants I put in the ground only yesterday. Ah, the joys of wild spaces! There was another lovely sunset this evening, following our first day when the temperatures hit 90 degrees. We elected to have dinner on the deck, enjoying fresh lettuce, spinach, and radishes from the garden.
How to find beauty in the midst of an auto accident recovery? And now, two of them in less than ten months? Mostly, again, in the same places beauty is always found. In our friends and family. In the garden and the shop. From the boat, on a hike, even in PT, where dedicated people work to try to make my foot better. (And tell me how to continue that work on a daily basis.) Things of beauty are, of course, in the eye of the beholder. I prefer to see beauty, rather than not. I have a beetle that is bothering my asparagus. It would bother me more, if it wasn't such a brightly colored, lovely-looking thing. The kingbirds that argue noisily outside our front door? Have you seen many other birds as lovely, as streamlined...and as useful in catching bugs? Yes, I'm still busily pulling out weeds, and even seedlings of plants I don't want in a particular place. But one of the grasses I'm working hardest to eradicate is one of my favorites for sheer beauty. And I don't even know what it is. I just know it's a lovely shade of green, with a beautiful seed head. I still pull them out - they're not even natives - but it doesn't mean I can't appreciate them. I saw a bee sipping water from an empty snail shell yesterday...you just never know where beauty may hide!
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