First Up

I haven't been writing lately and it feels like my head and my heart are stuffed.

So today...I want to start because the stories, thoughts and ideas should flow and not stagnate.   No more waiting for something deep to strike, unravel, or expound upon.

Instead of trying to reflect on the previous year, I'm looking forward to this one...and offering up simple glimpses of the simple things.  I'm trying to celebrate each new day by doing something that's decidedly not work.   Something creative.  Something relaxing.  Something outside. 
Celebrate and simplify.  Feed your soul.   Take some pictures.   

A couple of thoughts:

• We've had some snow, but not nearly enough.  My body needs sunshine, but it prefers to sit on the couch.  Shovelling gets me out.  On one walk we found a spot where 3 deer were bedded down when the snow fell.    And then a few days later....a deer carcass.  Someone must have field dressed it this fall.
• But I baked the first batch of blue berry muffins for 2012.  A friend of Craig's noticed a serious shortage of muffins in the house.  Really!   
• We've had mild weather.  7 degrees on January 7th!  The parsley in the garden is quite happy.   Apparently.   
• And who knew that January would hold so many spectacular sunsets.  Today I drove to work and saw the sun rise through the clouds. If not for the seasons, I would never see a sunrise.  God knows me so well!
• And Blix?!.....she and I have been out in the field almost every day.   It's sandy and dry as a bone.  Yesterday we saw a flock of white snow geese (maybe even tundra swans...too far away to tell for sure.) Then we sped to the lagoons to see if that's where they headed....instead I took a photo of the little lane between the ponds.
• We love the other side of the tracks.   We live on the wrong side :)
• Today I'm looking forward to our family reunion this summer.  We've been trying to settle on a venue and have finally narrowed it down to.......PEI!  I loved that one of my nieces, who lives abroad, is looking forward to gathering on the Island.  She gets homesick for the PLACE, just as one gets homesick for the people.   I thought I was the only one.  It happens.  

So today these thoughts are dancing a little jig in my mind.