Wildflowers

Wow... one post last year... way to be appreciative, NOT! :S It's an excuse to say life got too busy and in the way, so I'm not going to go there and just wipe the slate clean.

Over the last few days, little wildflowers have been popping up in the grass patches outside our work building. It's such a pleasure to see these tiny flashes of color on the way in and to be reminded about how beautiful life is.

Bonnet House

You know what’s a pleasure?

Going somewhere that is completely outside of your daily existence.

The difference may be as simple as an estate house, bright and colorful,
with perfectly sculpted gardens.

Or it may lie at the edge of a pond, so clear
you can see the bottom even as it falls away from you.

Perhaps, it is in the treasures you spot tucked away in a corner somewhere.

Or, in that chance encounter, coming across the mated pair of swans
just as a groundskeeper drives up to feed them.

Yes, that might be it.

Or...

Visit the Bonnet House official site.

A Glorious Sunset

Is there anything as breathtaking as a sunset? I can almost hear the day issuing a last 'hurrah' as it gives in to the night. In this Floridian sunset in March, it is as if the the winter months are saying "goodbye," as they coax these glorious colors from the sky to herald in the Spring.