Small Things - 3

Sunshine is really not so small at all.

 

At my church these days, the stained-glass windows on one side are out for cleaning and restoration (the work on the other side has been completed), so for this brief period in time, one can look through clear windows to colored ones.

Small Things - 2

At the labyrinth at University Hospitals in Cleveland; the labyrinth itself is pictured below, with Church of the Covenant (PCUSA) in the background.

Marsh in Ashland OH.

 

My neighborhood walking route at home.

 

John Carroll University Labyrinth.

 

Small Things - 1

  

There are a couple of big things trying to surface in my life these days.  Should they happen to shake out their wings and emerge, I'll write about them.   In the meantime . . .

 

The holidays are coming.  I realized in the midst of an online discussion a couple of days ago about Christmas that my preference would still be to go straight from early November into January.  I am so not looking forward to that upcoming six-week period of dissociation. 

 

I don't feel like commenting upon it, however.  I think that over the past four years I've exhausted what I've had to say.

 

So: some posts about small things. A look back at each day for something small and good.

 

This evening at sunset found me walking around Lower Lake and through the Nature Center's boardwalk trails.  I stopped to watch several chickadees and a couple of white-breasted nuthatches at a feeder.

 

Yesterday's newspaper birding column mentioned an influx of red-breasted nuthatches.  One of them spent several days at our feeders at home before the hurricane came through, along with white-breasted friends who are still here.

 

It was delightful to recall our unexpected visitor as I wandered around in the early evening light.