Nature

Dear Friends

Thank you so much for your comments about retirement.  I guess it will be another Season of my life and will embrace it as it is better than the inevitable.  I wanted to share pictures of nature and some of these pictures I am most proud of.  The swallow tails which I hope I have named them correctly are my pride and joy they keep coming back year after year and I am so glad I get to be their lunch partner.  Bees, well we all know we need these in our lives and a picture of my cherry tree in my back yard, it was a seedling and now towers my house and provides shade year after year and a beautiful pink snow in the Spring.  The full double rainbow, well it was a long Friday and I was leaving my job "I Love To Hate" and it was magical standing right under the glow, I will never forget it.

My flower pictures are usually from my perennial bed I planted the year my son graduated from high school.  I can't help but think about all the parents starting new Seasons with their children.  Some starting preschool, kindergarten, middle school, high school, college.  I will never forget the drive home after leaving my son at college, my loving man and I cried all the way home.  Flowers and nature have a way of letting you know there is a future and a new beginning.  I know this, I live this, I believe this.  Play in the dirt again and walk through a garden and enjoy nature and yes, butterflies are free to fly!