Noticing

I am feeling so grateful for the amount of time we have right now. 

This looks a little like the brown stone fly cocoons we found in winter - I wonder if it is the same, or something new? Look how very well camouflaged it is among these branches - I at first thought it was a small seed cone.

 

Time to notice the very small details of our world.  

It is sometimes tempting to be lulled by the business of Things To Do - the business of life, of imagined priorities, of producing tangible evidence of our daily learning and existence...

Ani exclaiming and drawing me back to show me a fern. She noticed every single one we passed.

But there is Something calling our Wisest Selves back out to notice this...

Blue-eyed Mary (or Merry - hi mama!)

 ...and this...

...and this...

oh my. oh oh my. broken wing, but so beautiful. we gently laid it aside to live out its hours.

 ...and this.

Discussing the size of the fish that might nibble toes

  

It doesn't take much time to notice, but I wouldn't trade a minute of the lingering, wondering, and being of these days...what else could be more important right now?