two dogs standing in a leafy wooded area with bare trees and scattered green vegetation | Two large dogs walking together on a paved path next to a mossy stone wall and green grass on a cloudy day

11 May ~2018

Since I went off caffeine again (previous time was from 2000 to 2011), I have discovered more energy to get up before dawn and walk the greenbelt just as the sun is risng. This week the cottonwoods have unfolded their leaves. It is a drastic but pleasant change to go from walking beneath bare branches and blue sky to now into corridors and canopies of green. The golden banners have bloomed beneath the eleven cottonwoods, and that spot is my hope of what heaven might be like. I left some of sweet Maggie's ashes there.

 

 



Sunlight filtering through tall trees onto a narrow dirt path surrounded by green leafy bushes and white blossoms Two dogs playing in a sunlit field of yellow wildflowers near green-leafed cottonwood trees beneath a partly cloudy sky Person touching a carved shape in the ground with a black and white dog standing nearby on a grassy path beneath trees