Lutescent Happiness

Saturday morning I was flying down the road after taking Zach somewhere. Suddenly, as if for the first time, I became intensely aware of the bright daffodils against the colorless dim of leftover winter. The citrine iridescence seemed to vibrate. I had to stop and pick a few to take home. Happiness in a mason jar.

There is a tiny yellow daffodil,
The butterfly can see it from afar,
Although one summer evening's dew
could fill Its little cup twice over,
ere the star
Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold,
And be no prodigal.
~Oscar Wilde

Dysmas Happiness

Just Beyond The Sunset

Someone waits for me
Just beyond the sunset
Lies my destiny
Where the purple mountains
Lie in deep tranquillity
There I’ll find the treasure
Of love eternally

Just beyond the sunset
Waits someone so fair
Just beyond the sunset
All alone they wait there
Their hair is golden
The colour of the sand
Their eyes sparkle in the night
Like diamonds in your hand

Just beyond the sunset
Lies a home for me
Where the world is peaceful
Like a paradise should be
Just beyond the sunset
Someday is where you’ll find me

Written - July or Aug 1966

David Harris

Hair Happiness

Finding the little things that bring happiness is key to living a contented life. Here begins a series on 'the little things'.

I love, love, love my shaggy, furry Mags. AND my hair is finally long enough to put up in chopsticks again. Hair happiness.

Beauty in Contrasts

Being a girl of contrasts and contradictions, I thought it befitting that this post follow the previous one about warmer temps and flip flops. Two weeks later, it is currently snowing, and has been the whole day with no signs of stopping. Predictions are at 5-7 inches when it is all said and done. So I ran out to capture some of the blanketed charm of the day. The shots are taken from my iphone so the lighting isn't always great, but you get the idea. I wish I had thought to record audio at one point to demonstrate how confused nature must be right now. I closed my eyes to listen to the quiet, and in the distance I could hear birds chirping as on a spring day. Just has to make you smile!


Flip flops and tee-shirts two weeks ago, bundled and snow-capped today


Often thinks in song lyrics...

Where are you going?
Where do you go?
Tell me, where are you going?
Where?
Well, let's go


Red against the black and white


I took this in the morning before I knew that today, March 2nd, was Texas Independence Day...Yes, I have a Texas Lone Star affixed to the front of my house. All of a sudden, I have a hankerin' for a Shiner and some Zimmerhanzel's BBQ...


Not much for yard ornamentation except for my beloved dachshund statue


Simplicity


A golf birdhouse (screams spring) spired with a snow cathedral (contrast...)


Graceful, wavy black and white lines of a small tree


Blood red and white


Dark wood and pristine white - this was at about three inches of snow so far


I tried to capture the size of the flakes -they looked like half dollars floating from heaven


Contrast: Summer deck tables just waiting for alfresco dining.....piled with snow...


Loves how this is allllllllmost a black and white with the funny lighting thing the camera did with such a white background - makes the maroon really stand out.


Flip flops poised by the door from a few weeks ago and cold, wet scarf and hat from today.....beauty in contrasts.