Bare simplicity...

These pine needles in Sequoia National Forest remind me of the simplicity of winter... just as our house becomes bare and empty.

A time of change and a new beginning just around the corner.
As the Philosopher Seneca said: "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
Today, the kitchen and bedroom will be boxed and ready... leaving just our bed and two chairs behind for tomorrow.


Nicholas

The wisteria is spectacular this morning. Our second-to-last morning waking up here in our beautiful home. 

I am reminded that we are, each of us, only stewards of the places we live and the lives that we touch. This letting go of the daily routines, and the habits that no longer serve, helps me to get a new focus on things. This house is not mine, it is the place I have been privileged to create, to journey, to grow.

The two Tibetan bells hanging on the pergola were a wedding gift from Bill and Sue, who jointly married us in June of 2000. Hard to believe we will soon be on a ship, heading for North America when we celebrate our anniversary, that these bells will be in a storage unit in England, and that we will be bringing into form the new home that will be ours to steward for as many years as we are blessed to do so.

Just as some of the wisteria is fully in bloom, just above the lower of the two bells, there is a large bud...poised for full expression...here we go...

Judy