lovely things



my girls at work know that recently i have been mentally compiling a list of things that i immensely enjoy or take particular delight in. i'm not sure how this list started . . . i think i've just been trying to be more aware of the creatively designed things that surround me, both by my God and by people . . .

i have taken a particularly interest in making myself aware of things that i love about this place that i live called the eastern shore. the eastern shore is a quaint little place. while it is growing by leaps and bounds, it still maintains much of its down-home goodness. i much enjoy that. this is particularly wonderful to me because, when i moved here, i never thought i would love anything about this place.

below you will find a partial list that has come up over the last week, some shore related, some not.

1. driving over the bay bridge and being at the same level with the birds.

2. strawberry picking

3. eating bananas divided into its 3 natural triangle-like parts (does anyone understand what i mean when i say this?)

4. hand-painted signs on the side of the road that advertize home-grown products sold right from the house (and especially when there's just a box where you leave your money - it is comforting to know that people are still trusting like that)

5. that the sky looks different every night as the sun sets