June 24, 2006
In just three days I will resume the chemotherapy treatments, so each morning I think I should hurry up and enjoy life while my energy is holding. The options are so many and so attractive, I seem to spend a good deal of time sitting around considering them without actually doing anything.
Sanctuary is extravagant in its colors now, with the large white clusters of elderberry standing about in beautiful random bouquets over the wetlands. Nearer to the house, the day lilies, coneflowers, hollyhocks and yarrow are all in full bloom with promises of many days of celebration to come. It is very dry and though we stand out looking at clouds that pass by to the north and the south of us, and though we say, “Over here!” to the rain, none has fallen for a long time. Most of the birds seem to have gotten the early feeding sessions completed; now it appears that the parent birds are leading their offspring in flying lessons as they all arrive together at the topmost branches of the cedars near the house.