last week on Saturday I was up early enjoying the beauty of the tropical setting… beautiful palm trees, lush vegetation with lots of blooming flowers, tropical breezes… it was amazing…

outside my room a week ago…

this morning as I sit here I am looking out on a winter wonderland… the ground is a pure white, the trees are outlined in snow and the sun is rising behind me… truly a gorgeous morning…

trees outlined with snow…

what a blessing to have the opportunity to enjoy such diverse sights…

it always amazes me how beauty is usually out there, but we don’t always take the time to see it…

last night it was an effort to get ready for a hot tub and when I got out there it was beautiful… there was a fresh skiff of snow over everything so as I walked to the hot tub in my slippers I had to be careful not to step too fast and get snow in them and I left a lovely trail of prints in the snow… the top of the tub was covered in snow as well and looked pristine…

then I tried to open the cover… and it wouldn’t cooperate…  it was too cold to run in and get some water to melt the frozen strap, so I came back in and went to bed, lol…

to and from the hot tub, but not in it…

the funny thing is that I had been feeling a bit sorry for myself before I went out, missing George… I was particularly missing the end-of-the-day chats where we would share how the day had gone… I had wanted to tell him about my experience at work trying to show my colleagues a slide show of the vacation highlights… he would have laughed about the fact that I couldn’t get one of the computers to show the pictures without distorting them and how we ended up huddled around my desktop checking them out… and he would have enjoyed the story about the special treat that a colleague brought in for me…  I thought I was over missing that particular piece of our life, but apparently it will continue to come and go…

cedars in their snow outfits…

I continue to see the beauty around me, even when in some moments it is tinged with a little sadness…