Senses Inventory: Sleepy Stormy Morning

Good morning sweet friends.

I don't know about you, but I am a little sleepy today.

Thunderstorms, lightning, and heavy rain woke us up in the wee hours, 

gripping the house rudely, slashing apart the sky, and rising the pond another foot or so.

I think I was already seventy-three or seventy-four percent awake when that started, though,

so my mascara-smeared eyes are about five hours short on sleep.

The dark, moody environment is beautiful but not exactly conducive 

to a chipper, energetic launch into activity. 

As I finish some excellent coffee and gather my scraps of energy

for today's work and projects...

a quick senses inventory.

See:  Blue-white twinkle lights draped on our fireplace mantle. Colorful living rooms furnishings around me and new artwork on a gallery wall to my left. Clean wood floor. Spiky houseplant adorned with a bright blue parrot feather. A lidded, blue mason jar filled with pens and pencils. Short stack of notebooks, magazines, and books to read.

Hear: Wind pushing angrily into the chimney. Crashing, rumbling thunder. Rain. Groaning doors and windows, like I am in a ship on the ocean not a house on the plains. Guineas alerting us to a raccoon caught in a live trap overnight.

Taste: Perfect coffee. Remnants of breakfast, which was a cheesy sausage omelette. Minty kiss from Handsome still on the front of my lips.

Smell: Coffee. Coconut-vanilla scented wax. Occasionally a waft of rain or the last trace of that wonderful toasted bread fragrance.

Touch: Air conditioning kicking on early today, slicing charitably through the humidity. Lace tablecloth at my wrists. Bare feet on a squeaky, shiny wood floor. Cuffed jeans I have now worn for three days straight.

Think: How do I measure up? Should I rearrange my schedule? Should I stop blogging and just write? Will my little cucumber sprouts survive the floods? I hope the herb bed fills in soon.

Feel:  Cautiously optimistic about some important unknowns in life. Grateful. Creative but sleepy. A little wistful to have said goodbye to Mortimer the garden-munching turtle. Homesick for my girls but so thrilled for their health and well being. Excited for the big things coming for each of them. Also still feeling extremely, shamefully romantic.

Thanks for joining me today! 

I would sure love to know how the world looks, 

smells, tastes, and feels where you are.

Have an amazing day.

xoxoxoxo