Into the sunshine

Yesterday, I took the afternoon off. After a brief appointment in Whitefish I visited a dear friend whose home and company is “peace and serenity” – and fun and interesting – and with beautiful views of the mountains. Her house sits a half a mile off the main road down a country lane that has 3 or 4 houses in that first quarter mile – the last quarter mile winds around a lovely open meadow and then up a small hill to the house.

As I was leaving – turning onto the lane where the other houses sit… two rabbits sat munching on late dandelions and thistles in the grass near the road. They were a black rabbit and a cottontail. And they were sitting so close and so companionable when I first saw them that I immediately thought of a favorite childhood book: The Rabbits Wedding, written and illustrated by Garth Williams.

The sound of the jeep startled the cottontail and he moved into the pasture but the black rabbit, sat still and watched.

The Rabbits Wedding is a simple, sweet story with beautiful illustrations.

“Every morning they hopped out of bed and out into the early morning sunshine”.

Ambition

1 Thessalonians 4:11

Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands.

a little color

I headed out this morning to Home Depot to get paint, etc. for the next phase of the porch project. It was alternately drizzly, rainy, sprinkling and generally overcast but the fall color is suddenly near its peak and even the gray skies could not dull the golds of the aspen and birch and even a little bit of red. I caught all of these on the road to the dump…

a bit of blue at one moment…

a little color.

Clear blue skies

I took these photos yesterday… the blue sky, white clouds, sunshine…these photos might have to hold me awhile. The week is to be cool, rainy and although a bit far out, they are forecasting snow to the valley floor late in the week. But as of yesterday afternoon, the sky was that impossibly beautiful blue and the clouds piling up over the mountain peaks were white-white. Temperatures rose to nearly 70 all week giving us another week of late summer.

We enjoyed!