I had very good intentions of writing on a more regular basis then what is happening in reality. I have been busy and that is a good thing.
This picture was taken by my daughter in law Erica. Last weekend her and my son did a day trip over the Cascade loop.
They will go back and take their time.
I have been trying to keep up with the tiny little space I have. I have had people stop and ask about flowers I have growing. Others have stopped to say how pretty my yard looks.
I am not sure I see what they see, and that has me thinking. How often we do not take the time to take in our own beauty.
All I was seeing was the weeds!! I am like talking to myself, saying how can you say it is pretty, don't you see those weeds?
How often do we do that? How often do we only see the weeds and not the flowers? I sure am guilty of doing that. I will take the time to see all that is good. all that is pretty.
Which reminds me of a funny story about my neighbor. I don't know if any of you, (if there are any of you!) remember the trees I had removed from my property line. they were beautiful. they were also dangerous, messy and created so much shade nothing would grow. I never saw anyone as excited as my neighbor, to see those trees go. She hated the mess and how the needles kept piling up making a horrible mess, she was like good bye trees.
Well, last week, I came across my neighbor, who had to tell me how much she missed the fir needles in her yard. Now she has to weed and at least they kept the weed down. !!! What she is missing is, the rose bush that is now blooming that never had the chance to grow because it was to shady, Or the lilac bush I didn't even know was there, now growing and blooming. Nope all she can see can see is the weeds,
Take some time this week to look past the weeds and see the beauty. Life is always going to give us weeds.
