Best Moments

- Sunsets and cows never fail to please.

- Foggy mornings and racing out of bed to catch the first light.
- Gorgeous sunrises, cows to greet me first thing in the morning, and neverending skies.
- Stiff beach winds whipping, high surf, sitting in a hammock chair having a drank and relishing the stormy weather.

- Watching the little girl dance and squeal as the surf chased her up the beach.

- A wonderful dinner, full and happy walking out onto the wave-crashed jetty, tide going out, water lapping my toes. The lightning flashes far off in the Gulf and everything is hazy from the spray. My lips taste salty just from walking down the beach.

- Gaido’s pecan pie for breakfast. I don’t even like pecan pie and it’s the best pecan pie I’ve ever tasted. I was told to order a piece, then take it back and let it cool and eat it later and it was the best thing ever. (It’s true)
- Dreams of working through things, perhaps in ways that I don’t understand, but I know that’s what’s going on.
- Marble lunch counter and a flat top griddle. Hell yes.

- Soda fountain, free taffy, a mountain of goodies to take home and coffee in the rain. Perfection!

- Art Deco buildings, cobblestone streets, phone booths and a undercurrent of wet mustiness…pure character!

- The coolest looking alley I’ve seen in a long time. I should go photograph more alleyways!

- Warming, glorious showers.
- Neverending layers and layers and layers at sunrise.

- Taking the long way home and then detouring again to take the even longer way home, stopping for really great finds, amazing yarn and lunch.
- I bought a jellyfish paperweight at the gift shop at Jimmy’s on the Pier. It said it glowed in the dark but I didn’t test it until later and it was *SO* amazing.

- “You know you’re on the right track when you become uninterested in looking back.” I’m coming to understand this.
- Views from the highest spot in town, watching the lights, the cars, feeling the breeze.

- Driving with the windows down, feeling the heat islands and temperature changes in the coolness of the night.
- My lunch and office today was off the side of the brush truck while I worked on work and our airpacks at the station.

- One day…one day…I will make it here.
- Dinner at the Salt Lick. Beer, company, bbq sandwich, great weather…couldn’t ask for more!
- Driving into town, amazing sunsets:

- Sharing stories, being honest and opening up.
- I found the warm reflection off the transom windows again that only seems to happen in spring and fall. It’s my morning warm spot, I walk through it every sunny morning and I always stop and pause and soak it in.

- My baby cow; such a sweet thing:

- Hot tea on cool mornings and remembering other cool mornings with hot tea.
- Warm maple and brown sugar oatmeal for breakfast.
- Driving home, catching the orange light behind my favorite tree. I always sing the song in my head when I see the orange skies, but I’m coming to realize that it’s only in my own love that my salvation lies.

- A couple weeks ago after I had a particularly bad day, my good friend handed me a giant bucket of glow sticks to break and make me feel better (which it did). So I put out on Facebook to my friends that everyone should send me boxes filled with glow sticks, and low and behold, one of my friends took me up on the offer! I recieved in the mail a box full of glow sticks, a candle and a couple of bath bombs and a lovely postcard. I was *SO* excited! And I brought her back a giant box full of chocolates and candies from the confectionary in Galveston in return. Super fun!

- Toodling down my dirt roads with the sun sliding down the horizon, and the evening coolness draping over everything and cows, rabbits, owls, hawks, all the trappings of country life greeting me as I go.

- Epic trip planning!
- Epic fire training! We cut a car in half, because we could. I cut windshields, broke windows, hefted the “jaws of life,” cut roofs off, and generally was badass.

- It’s been so rainy that we’ve had mushroom fairy rings popping up everywhere like little umbrellas. The mornings have been cool and foggy and make for most excellent photography.

- I’ve gotten to the point where I can just hop up on Tex bareback with just a halter and lead rope and ride him around. He’s been really well behaved and I just love being able to scramble up and tool around without any need for extensive preparations.
- There was a donkey trying to eat my hair the other morning, it was absolutely adorable. It looked like I had an “asshat.”

- Hilarity is the cat watching (and chattering at) the turkey on the back porch railing and the turkey watching (and perking back at) him.

- My sweet little fingernail moon at 5:30am through my bedroom window. (I know I post it every month, but it really does make me so very happy to see it.)
- 20 amazing cloud formations
- Mud puppies!

- The giant rubber duckie came to Pittsburgh and I’m so excited about it!