Oh today was a good day!  It started with the three mile loop my friend Suzi and I have been doing several times a week this summer.  I am going to miss those walks when school is back in and she heads back to work.  I have really loved our morning walks and talks!  Then I got to have lunch with another amazing woman, JJ, at our local bar, sitting in the sun on the patio.  I’ve missed having time to slow down and discuss matters that really matter these last few years.  I am encouraged and emboldened by these women 🙂

Then it was home to pack up for Zip’s cabin.  Aaron and I were on the road by 2 and pulled into the driveway of Zip’s by 4.  The first thing we noticed when we were unloading  the car was a huge number of butterflies all around the front porch of the cabin.  I have been in butterfly gardens in zoos and such before and this was just about the same.  They were landing on our shirts, our heads, our hands….it was truly magical and totally unexpected (as all good magic is).

After communing with the butterflies for a while, we set up a card table on the front porch and played Uno.  The cabin guests before us left us a beautiful bouquet of fresh wildflowers which we kept on the table near us.  After Uno, we crossed the creek to explore the woods and found a ring of stones in the ground.  What a perfect place to make a fairy garden.  So using plants and sticks we decorated up the little ring and made sure to note it in the cabin guest book so the next occupants could go find it.

We spent the evening working a puzzle and then slid into bed around 11.  There is nothing better than the quiet that comes from leaving “civilization” behind.  True dark at night.  True quiet in the house.  True smiles and true breaths.  Xxoo