I finally have a quiet moment to sit down with my thoughts. How nice. I've been surrounded by unusual signs of Easter and Spring this week. 1st, when I drive the daughter to daycare, there's a small pasture on a curve. I love this pasture - the gentleman owns land on both sides of the road and it is not unusual to see him in his 4 wheeler checking on the cows and heading for home. I tend to come into the curve where his pasture is around 7:10 and usually the fog is lifting slowly. It's so peaceful. Lately though, one of the tree stumps looks like a rabbit. Reminder to self that I really need to set up an eye appointment, but once again, the stump looked like a rabbit today - one of those big, brown Watership Down kind of bunnies. It's amazing how your eye can fool you (or your heart can fool you) and you can see something beautiful out of a decaying piece of wood.
I am currently working on Mondays and Wednesdays and commute an hour each way. If I stop in to plan the day with the parents, I take one route, but when I go right to the store, I take a route through the country - down Highway 24 through Townville (would love to live there) and into Seneca. At the Anderson and Oconee county lines, there is a small Methodist church - I can't tell you what the windows looked like on previous trips, but yesterday morning the 4 lights of each window were colored like an Easter egg. If my mind serves me right, there are 4 windows on each side. What a wonderful display of spring and for those of you observing Easter - a quiet reminder.
On my way home yesterday, I decided to take another route - down Hwy 8 into Pelzer - Pelzer route, if you do it right, will drop you onto Georgia Road heading into Simpsonville. I missed the turn and ended up in Fountain Inn, but that's ok...it's still easy getting home. I love how small towns are - lots of picket fences, large yards with parents meeting the school bus, a baseball field filled with youth for afternoon sports and horses galloping in the fields. It made me think a bit - with spring coming, it's a season for growth, re-prioritizing, re-focusing. My daughter turns 1, my husband and I find ourselves constantly up against a list of to-dos, now compounded by the challenge of timing funds (since leaving the corporate world behind). I'm looking forward to a little bit of scheduling so we can fit all the portions of our life in and still have fun in the process! Enjoy the sunshine today - it's fabulous outside!!
