My family has a special journal we keep. It’s a beautiful little book hand crafted and stitched paper with a piece of leather that wraps around it to keep it shut. It’s our, “I’ve never seen anything like that before in all my life” journal. Linda and I are constantly amazed at the cool things we see when we’re paying attention. We often comment, “wow, I’m x number of years old and I’ve never seen anything like that. Boys! you are only x number of years old and you get to see it today!” It kept happening and we began to wonder if maybe we had seen some of this stuff but just didn’t remember. So we started to write about it. One thing I remember vividly hurrying to write down was when we saw a cardinal get hit by a car. (I know, it’s really terrible) But, it’s not something you see everyday. I think they must be smarter or faster than other birds. Or something. Anyway, it must have been hit by the car that was about 50 ft in front of us. Just before our eyes, there was this amazing explosion of red feathers. As I’m writing this, I know I’m not doing the moment justice. It was beautiful. It was really something to see. It was like a firework of red feathers. Truly, never was the death of something living quite so beautiful.
So this morning, I was feeling a little down. I’d recently lost a long term client to someone charging a ridiculously low sum. I was sad on many levels. When I work with a family from pregnancy through the birthdays every year… it is just plain a bummer knowing I won’t see them again. Anyway, on with the story! I looked out our front door and into our garden and was stopped in my tracks. There was the most beautiful complete orb spider web attached to our crabapple tree. The morning was heavy with dew and it was cool outside creating the breathtaking affect of steam coming off of everything that was alive. The tree appeared to be breathing. I don’t know if I’ve done the scene justice, but I’ve given it my best shot. Enjoy!
