Taking Time to Take in Beauty is Important.

Often in hast to accomplish one item we will miss something just as beautiful, or even more extraordinary. We have that one task we wanted to tackle when we started out on our trip and don’t really want to be interrupted. This is how the week started, but a whole string of different treasures took the priority. And it was well worth the trade.

I was prepared for sketching and painting with my sketchbook and paints in hand. There were numerous times this week I set out to fill play with spring color. And yet, the pages still are empty; they are still calling out for color and line. Why do they wait? Because when out exploring there was such spring beauty budding forth, blooming and singing I found myself clicking my camera here, and then there. Chimpmunks, playing squirrel families, Baltimore Orioles, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Black and White Warblers are to name a few. Amazing beauties that I just had to try to capture with my camera. It’s another moment that comes and goes in a flash. It’s beautiful and it was the quickest way to keep that moment fresh. It was being willing to do something different to take advantage of the beautiful moments when they were available. The time may not come again. It’s being flexible. It’s being in the moment. The sketchbook will wait a couple more days, but it too will have the beautiful that it’s pages deserve along with extra lingering moments to make them precious too. Be flexible. Have fun. Create moments of joy, today.