Retreat Memories

Retreat is over. Spending some time at SFO waiting for my flight back to Seattle . My retreat time was much needed, but it will also be good to sleep in my own bed tonight! I took lots of photographs this week, but here's a list of things I didn't get to photograph (but want to remember):

The smell of eucalyptus

The three-pronged call of the owl

Hummingbirds zipping from flower to flower

The coolness of the straw bale

hermitage on a hot

summer’s day

The rustle of leaves and/or

the swift scrambling of dirt and rocks

signaling that a deer is nearby

or one time even a jackrabbit!

Sitting vigil in the garden in the evening,

waiting patiently

knowing the deer will come for a visit

And she does, startled still by me until

I stop too and then

she goes about her business of eating leaves undisturbed

There’s more, but this is a good

enough list to help me remember.