home on the range

"to be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars...to spend as much time as you can, with body and with spirit, in God's-out-of-doors these are little guidespots on the footpath to peace" henry van dyke

this is the view from my house a few days ago. this quote helped me notice all the things going on around me that are "guidespots to peace".

obviously today it is snowing...how can i tell? because i have clean and shiny windows at my house thanks to the best mother-in-law who came and helped me wash them last night.

i love our home. i love looking out of our windows (finally clean) and seeing green rolling hills and mountains. sunday i woke up to the song a crane (side bar: it is less of a song and more of a death call).

we have 5 baby foxies that live in a hollow (fox hollow actually is what it is called-weird) on the way to our house and each night we see them playing and frolicking and experiencing life.

i LOVE rolling my window down on the way up the canyon and smelling earth and horses and cows and green. i didn't know green was a smell, but it is. even watching the brown and growing river is thrilling (maybe because we live up on the hill and are not in it's path?).

while we were eating dinner last night (after i cut my thumb and passed out, true story) we watched a little boy in our yard and field attacking thistles and practicing his karate or his crazy (still not sure). he was talking to himself the whole time and yelled at each foe before he chopped it down. enchanting.