Well, attempting to read:
Either way, it was a good, easy weekend. Here’s to an easy week.
weekend report
Sun At Last
The sun was shining all weekend so instead of a hike in the mountains where we’d still need snow gear, we went to the botanical garden where we wore light jackets and saw flowers in bloom.
Toby did not join us for the outing but he enjoyed the sun nonetheless.
(Pet portraiture by Doc, of course. He takes all the good ones.)
“At the end of winter when afternoons return”
The sun was out all weekend and it really felt like this winter may not last forever. Blue skies, small blessings.
(Post title from “The Poems of Our Climate,” by our buddy Wallace Stevens.)
Closeups For Your Monday
We got the tree up
And someone has jellybean toes
(Photo by Doc, of course)
The Good Life
It was a great long weekend–my brother did a bang-up job with Thanksgiving, we were all there to celebrate, I made a huge dent in some top-secret projects, my friends sent flowers, and the mountains got some snow.
There’s a lot that’s wrong in the world but there’s a lot that’s good, too.
“Wildness and wet”
It was a brisk 45 degrees and threatening rain but we made it up the canyon for a bit yesterday. I had to look up this Hopkins poem when I got back home–because who cares about the weather when you can write ecstatic verse in sprung rhythm about nature?
What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
(from “Inversnaid,” by our buddy Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Wildlife
When we were hiking in Yellowstone, we passed a couple who were focused on something on the trail and the man turned to us and whispered, with an Eastern European accent, “Weeldlife.” So now I say that in my head when I see weeldlife. Here is the weekend with various wild encounters:
When You Really Want To Go To The Pool
…but you talk yourself into a hike instead (because: fitness!!) then decide the hike is too hot and get in the stream, you see some delightful things:
Hike rating: meh. Stream rating: 10/10, would play “Wind in the Willows” again.
Relaxing Weekend
There was a lot less going on this weekend–“just” the gym and cleaning the house and restocking groceries and seeing family and making a couple weeks’ worth of freezer burritos–along with looking at some wildflowers and an excellent sunset.
10/10, would repeat this weekend again.
Things Done Over The Weekend
- an HOA meeting
- cleaning
- the gym
- a visit to Tracey Aviary
- seeing family
- meal planing
- weekly planning
- a trip to Costco
- hiking up a mountain
I’d like a weekend to recover from the weekend, maybe?
