Some days are so brilliant they’re hard to capture on film. Today is a great March day of teasing winds and warm sun full of promise.
We cut some trees Saturday and opened up the pond-side llama enclosure. Looking good. Not a lot of fire wood but we definitely gained water view footage. We opened it up for bluebirds and grazing. Still plenty of catbriar to go.
On Wed. 1/12/11 we got 16"–18" of nice fluffy snow, now slightly packed, but it has stayed cold so it’s not hard to shovel, except for the depth part. Two shovels for each bite down to ground level.
Mike’s nice black truck snowed in
On the deck, how tall IS a tabletop weber grill? It’s almost hidden here on the… table top. Snow is about 3-4” higher than the seam in the midriff of the grill.
I picked flowers today and macerated them in alcohol to make a tincture. This is new territory for me, although I made two tinctures last year (burdock seed and elderberry). I loved walking among the flowers and looking for the ones that were freshest today. They were vibrant albeit simple and the sensation of gathering their energy into an extract was powerful in a quiet way. I had a sense also of service shared and of reverence.
I’m never getting one of those aluminum canes (http://www.canescanada.com/lightweight.htm). I’d rather fall down. I want the rainbow one it’ll hold me up better.
Sunlight dapples
happy twitters and exclamations
of birds
disperse the mind chatter
in ever widening circles
I breathe fully into my body