Taking a stroll with the dog recently, I came upon this unexpected patch of wildflowers on a favorite path. Momentary disorientation seized me. Wait a minute here, is it fall or spring? This isn't the season for brightly colored blooms in the desert. Look at this one, posed at wheelchair height just to smack me in the face with its surprising beauty. What a gift for me, that I could look straight into the face of this flower.
What is the message here? That this neighborhood spends a lot of money landscaping the common areas? Way more than that - money doesn't make flowers grow. My mind and shoulders were heavy with the weight of fear - of my physical and financial health, and the future of both seemed so foreboding. Loved ones near and far face challenges that seem unfair and even cruel. Friendships recently strained or even broken added sorrow to the mix of worries. Yet, natural forces were at work in the universe to create this happy floral scene. Trust in the mystery of natural forces to create beauty and to work things out. Everything will be alright.
A couple days after these photos were snapped, the temperature plummeted almost as harshly as the stock market and it snowed. We're not talking the softly-falling, snow-globe type scene, but real wintery, horizontal, blizzardy type snow. The kind that made me wish I had donned the ski goggles before I walked the dog in the neighborhood. Probably not the happiest day for these flowers that live across town....but a sure sign that soon, we will ski again and everything will be right with world.
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