These Days

We are:
going: outside
harvesting: the garden
reading: Madeleine L'Engle and Tolstoy and Tolkien...among other things
making: raspberry jam
eating: raspberry jam
loving: raspberry jam
finding: caterpillars
shouting at:  caterpillars (Luke asks, "why doesn't he do what I tell him?")
introducing Seamus to:  caterpillars
listening:  to birds in the yard, and Simon & Garfunkel
watching: the dog chase the birds out of the yard
swimming: in the pool in the yard
enjoying: having neighbors over to play in the yard
dreaming:  about pulling weeds.  I love pulling weeds.
smelling:  BBQ
drying: chamomile and mint
planning: for Christmas presents from my garden!
appreciating: having finished some good photography work,
and now: resting