Yesterday at work was one of those days that I call death by a thousand papercuts. There’s not any one big thing to make you insane, just a thousand little things that leave you wanting to tear your hair out by 5:00. Or rather, 5:30, since it’s those little things that inevitably keep you there later than you’d planned.

So 5:30 yesterday found me walking out the front door at work, grumpy and stressed and wanting to put as much distance between me and my desk as possible in as short an amount of time as possible.

Until I looked up.

Of course, it was the ONE DAY in the entire past two weeks that I HAVEN’T taken my camera to work… so y’all are going to have to make do with a cameraphone picture.

But still. It’s INCREDIBLE, no?

In one fell swoop, the crappy day was suddenly irrelevant.

I don’t know how it works, but if a sunset like that is atonement for a day of a thousand papercuts, well, bring on the lemon juice.

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One morning a couple of weeks ago, I was at the barn, and turned Moose out in the arena to roll in the sand (one of his favorite pastimes.)  After he rolled he got up, shook off, and then stood stock still in this patch of morning sunlight, perfectly posed.

My golden Moose.

Thank God for cameraphones — that’s all I can say about that.

He’s my golden boy.

Traveler.

I had just pulled into the parking lot at work when I noticed this maple seed stuck to my car window, and it got me thinking. The seeds are designed for the wind to carry them. It made me think of how some seeds are designed for the wind to carry them, others for birds to carry them, others to stick to animal fur… but did God or nature design seeds to be stuck to car windows and carried elsewhere?

It was a random thought in the morning… but I liked how the light came through the seed’s delicate wing, and the streaks on the window angled toward it, and the cloudy bright morning sky vignetting the top of the frame.

Little bits of beauty everywhere, as long as we know where to look.

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