Surround myself with beauty

Besides decorating a little for the holidays I’ve not even thought about this. I have taken the time to look at individual snow flakes and as much as I don’t care for snow I’ve appreciated how beautiful it’s looked.

Today I will visit E. She’s very beautiful and together we will create a beautiful quilt.

As much as I’m not a big fan of snow, I have to admit that it is beautiful and I’m surrounded in it alot.

Back to the dining room. It is beautiful. It has lots of windows and I love how the large bay windows frame the woods like a beautiful picture. Next step is to make it sparkle. It’s theme will be “harvest”. I love that my dining room is so nuetral that I can morph it into anything I want. I love that it has beautiful french doors that open onto a porch. (They’re much more beautiful when they don’t have doggie goobers on them.) Making it sparkle might be more work than I first imagined. It will be worth it.

Since I haven’t time to make an effort to do this in my home. I’ll reflect here on the beautiful schools my children go to. I had a parent teacher conference yesterday. I’m not in the schools very often but when I am I really notice how beautiful they are and how lucky my children are. They don’t know the difference to appreciate it but I do. Their schools are absolutely amazing. The architecture will be timeless and I’m thankful for that too.

In class yesterday I noticed the girl that sat behind me smelled good – something like Johnsons baby oil. Then a girl sat next to me and she brought with her a scent of a lovely perfume. It’s a lecture hall and the seats are so close you can usually smell the breath of the person next to you. I was thankful for the beautiful scents.

Right back at ballet class. H and I were pretty yesterday. Sometimes a really good class makes me feel beautiful. H brought some beautiful music. She said it was Christian music put to classical form. We were so pretty the static that made my skirt cling to my rear didn’t even take away from it.

There are so many beautiful sounds. I think we’re so bombarded with background sounds every day and as I grew older they bothered me. I always appreciate no sound. I appreciate more when the sounds I hear are simply nature. I really notice when I don’t hear cars or TVs and I can hear the leaves in the trees blowing in the wind.

I don’t know why but I think there must be a thousand birds in my woods. I know they’re flying south and I think they all stopped here to meet up. All day there’s been so much bird chatter it’s almost obnoxious. I think it’s beautiful and I’m thankful for the sound because I know it’s going away and won’t be back until spring.

I believed most of the colors of autumn were gone. Yesterday I drove down a local rural road that was canopied in trees with yellow leaves. It produced an incredibly beautiful glow. I’m glad that my life took me down that road unexpectedly.