Re: Life's simple pleasures

From: Neal (nbrown12_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 08:50:28 -0700

I have always loved mountains, especially the jagged peaks of the Rocky
Mountains.

Our home, which is on a mesa, is just over a mile from the base of the
Sandia Mountains. Every morning when I take Martha to work ,then later go
out to get the paper, looking at them gives me a special feeling, watching
the constant changes from the sunrise, the clouds, and the different weather
patterns. Sometime the east canyon winds blow the clouds over the tops of
the mounting, looking like giant whitecapped waves crashing down the sides.

Neal

"Judity01" <judity01@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041108095535.07763.00000423@mb-m01.aol.com...
> Thank you both. It really is hard to be tense around my little Hansel and
> Gretel home. I was thinking how lucky I was as I looked out at my front
yard
> yesterday.
>
> It was a perfect day, cloudy and overcast with a promise of rain. On the
right
> side I could see my neighbor's bottlebrush bushes peeking over the wooden
> fence, both fence and bushes filled with tiny birds. They would race full
> blast across to the left side of the yard where the pyracantha bushes are
> covered with red berries. There are so many berries this year that some
of the
> branches actually hang down almost to the ground.
>
> Having eaten their fill of the berries, these little birds would fly back
to
> hang from the low telephone lines on the right side of the yard then come
down
> to the bell-shaped seed containers I'd put out for my cats' enjoyment on
the
> table underneath the front window. One, two, or at times three of the
cats
> would be sitting inside on the wide windowsill watching this aerial show
with
> heads swiveling back and forth, teeth chattering when a bird got close to
the
> window, and Jenna actually standing up on tiptoes trying to get at them
through
> the glass.
>
> Minna meanwhile, not content to stay put at one window, was racing from
the
> front room to the library where she had 35 small windows to look out of
then
> madly back to the front room when she found no birds were close enough to
see
> from that room. It was quite a contrast in sound with the birds swiftly
and
> quietly flying back and forth and elephant-footed Minna thumping her way
> between the two rooms.
>
> All in all, it was another good day.
>
> Judity
>
>

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