A moose cow and baby ran by our house last week. There are baby ducks and geese in the pond near our house. :-) I’m learning to use Merlin, the free bird app from Cornell. It’s fun to identify the birds by sound! I’ve had time to garden since I’m here with Phil. It’s been such fun to plant and plan. The asparagus I planted earlier gave us some lovely meals. So fun to see how things grow. Photography is a great way to really look at patterns and beauty in nature. I’ve been enjoying posting new art photos on our website.Earlier I sent a picture of geese in the ice as a symbol of hope. This was taken last week very near the same place. A happier picture :-)

Check out Ecclesiastes: Enjoy all the days for your fleeting life:

Phil is struggling more and having a harder time with normal things  like unlocking the house or finding food in the fridge. 

He’s also having more trouble remembering words, so there is a kind of grief and frustration underlying the beauty and joy for us.  It’s a challenge to keep focus on God and thankfulness.
Half a dozen times, the book of Ecclesiastes  says to enjoy each day even while living in apparently pointless pain and difficulty. Chapter 9, verses 7-10, make me smile.  The New Living Translation puts it this way, “7 So go ahead. Eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, for God approves of this! 8 Wear fine clothes, with a splash of cologne! 9 Live happily with the spouse you love through all the meaningless days of life that God has given you under the sun . . .  10 and whatever you do, do well.”
It seems focusing on doing excellently every thing God has given us to do, and enjoying each day in the middle of the craziness, is perhaps a good road to contentment.

Wishing you all joy.
Karen

PS. Here's a kinda blurry picture of the cow moose and her baby. That's our back fence along the bottom of the photo :-)