Simple Beauty

This time of year I don’t even need to leave my house to see beauty all around me. I didn’t feel well yesterday so I made all of these photos from inside my house or out on the deck. Beauty before me, behind me, above me, and all around me. Thank you earth, sky, plants, trees, animals, and air.

“When I woke up in the morning the Sun was already up but hiding behind the clouds. The trees were swaying in the breeze. The clouds were floating as small boats in the sky. A strange fragrance caught me by surprise. I felt a rapturous frenzy inhaling it. The breeze drifted from the South and made me nostalgic. And life went on charting its own course. Life will paint you a masterpiece if you have the patience to see it!”
― Avijeet Das

I live my days in beauty, noticing it, thanking it, breathing it in, and basking in it.

“Teach me to sing and recite,
To whistle and jingle and strum.

Teach me to color and paint,
To sculpt and weave and create.

Teach me to sway and dance,
To tap and leap and twirl.

Teach me to laugh and giggle,
To tickle and play and pretend.

Teach me that life is beautiful.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes

May you walk in beauty.