Daffodils in Nancy's Yard, Coos Bay OregonToday's picture is a break from photos of Bondurant and Snow. Nancy sent it yesterday. It's becoming spring in other places. Nancy says they have been getting a lot of rain lately. Usually when the northwest gets rain, we get more moisture too, but we're only getting small skiffs of snow, just enough this morning that we know it snowed a little in the night. That skiff of snow melted off the roofs and dripped off the eaves when the sun first hit it. Although our prediction for today is 70% chance of snow and wind, the sky is brilliant blue and its warm and sunny this morning. That may change. And I wanted to note that several days ago the lows were still below 0, this morning it was almost 30 when I looked at the thermometer.
I'm sorry to hear of all the flooding right now, especially in Texas. I hope all of you down there are doing alright and not having any damage.
Betty and I talked yesterday, and her flowers are also blooming there in Mesquite. She has quite a wildflower mountain meadow in the big rock planters in her front yard. It all entails huge amounts of effort with watering, keeping the sprinkling system in repair, and planting, weeding and trimming. But it is beautiful during certain times of the year, including part of their mild winter there.
Remembering my mom this morning. This would have been her birthday. Today she would have been 100. She passed away about 1980 from complications of diabetes and the same kind of cancer that I have. I've written quite a bit about her in The Book.
Lately I am enjoying just being very quiet and relaxing. It seems like I'm getting lots closer to an inner peace by letting go of everything else. It's not a bad trade-off.
1 comment:
The daffodils are gorgeous. I have always wanted them since being enveloped in the fields of them in the movie Dr. Zhivago. Sigh ... I can't believe that movie was in 1965!
~J~
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