As I was driving around lately I’ve noticed flowers that only grow in the spring.
This is a plant that grows around an old windmill on the dirt road leading to my house. Most of the year the plant looks dead but every spring it sprouts beautiful purple flowers that last about three weeks. I am thrilled by this every year.
The last couple of day my dad and I were out in Borrego Springs, CA (where my netbook wouldn’t accept wifi so there was no blogging from there). On the way our eyes were drawn to beds of flowers. They bloom on the desert in Southern California in the spring for a month or two or maybe even three and then the heat wipes them out and they’re gone until the next spring.
That got me thinking about other things I look forward to that only happen once a year. The first thing I thought of was that magical two weeks in June where the stores are still selling bathing suits and, at the same time, I actually am ready to buy one. Of course, this is just a mental exercise because I haven’t bought one yet but I think this is the year. I’m still wearing the same one I did when I was thirty and it’s seriously too small.
I always look forward to the day the kids go back to school. I’m not sure why, I don’t have children living at home, but it still fills me with a sense of relief on behalf of all parents everywhere.
Christmas Day is a good one. All the events are over, all the presents are given, we’ve seen the family and kids and grandkids and it’s just a matter of my husband and I lying around looking at our presents and doing nothing. I really start looking forward to this about December 15. It’s also my signal to listen to music other than Christmas music as that is all I allow myself to listen to from the day after Thanksgiving to Christmas Day evening. Why? I don’t really know.
Every month I look forward to the day I get my Crafts Report magazine. It always focuses on crafters and artists that create things in their studios. I am terribly jealous of this and keep trying to think of something I could make that would let me call a room in my house a studio. I do make the photo DVD’s but I do that in an office/sitting room, although they are artistic. I also make soap and hand salve but they’re not really studio items. One day, one day.
And so the year goes. I will spend the next day remembering other times of the year that I appreciate particularly, and maybe even think about creating an event that qualifies. The one thing I know, my event won’t include wearing a bathing suit.
Fri, Apr 9, 2010
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