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This week saw the beginning of autumn, which is a pleasant time of year. On the last day of summer we got rain after more than a month without, so although it is only a cell phone photo, here is a photo from my ride to work that makes it looks like I live in a small farm town even though I live in a huge suburb of Des Moines. You could hear the lawn, shrubs, flowers and trees gulping great swallows of water like a kid coming off the biggest slide at the water park.
At work this week and last I have seen outside my office window a hummingbird and two herons. Again...suburbs of Des Moines. I love my office window. I once had a job candidate who said he hated his last job because they stuck him in a cubicle. He joked about my window, which spans the width of my office. We always had something to say when we worked on his job search and at Christmas that year I came back from lunch to a gift bag on my desk. The card said, "To Caron" and inside was a package of Windex wipes.
I knew exactly who left that for me!
I want to include this on Nature Notes Thursday. I saw something on another web site and I followed the link to a social networking site, which I do not want to participate in. But I like the premise: Grace in small things/Waging a battle against embitterment since 2008. They just list small things for which they are grateful. I will keep in "nature" in nature. (I crack myself up)
Grace in small things
1. Rain
2. Garbanzo beans
3. Rhubarb
4. Herons
5. Windows
8 comments:
Garbanzo beans? I feel like I just go to know you a little better.
"Grace in small things/Waging a battle against embitterment since 2008." Yes, I like that. Herons are wonderful. I would put my maroon mum on my list.
Great post. There is nothing like rain after too much time without.
Lovely post. I so understand about the rain as it has been dry in Ontario too. I'm surprised you're a city dweller as you seem to be quite in touch with what's happening in nature.
It really IS the small things in life that make people happy. I'm LOL @ the window wipes. Those are fantastic :)
(PS. Thanks for delurking and letting me read your thoughts! I'm always looking for new thoughts from new "friends" :) )
I love the windex gift. So appropriate!
Envious of your hummingbird sighting. I don't see any birds in my cube! :)
I like that 'grace in small things.' I hope I can remember it for the future.
Living with near-constant rain has left me hating it, but now you're making me think about what life would be without it---especially when I hear of Australia's dust storms and Hawaii's brush fires over the past few weeks.
Ok, I've put it on my list of 'grace in small things' too: I even wrote down five things I like about it, like the smell of damp earth that follows. Thanks!
LOL at the window wipes!
Lovely post Caron...I too am interested in the garbanzo beans. I hadn't heard of the 'small things" and am going to check it out... Michelle
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