periscope knits

the bright side.

Three things that made me happy today.

 

Two views of the Russian Mammoth sunflowers in my garden 

I look up to take these pictures, as the plants are eight feet tall or so. Their yellow faces look towards the ground as they prepare to drop their seeds.

Piko and Neko

They kept watch while I cleaned.  They haven't been my cats for long (a bit over a month), but oh!  My heart says they will be mine forever.

I am a lucky woman.

A Post Wherein I Am Reminded That Life Is For Living

Thank you, Edna St. Vincent Millay.

"I, being born a woman, and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair, and feel a certain zest
To bear your body's weight upon my breast:
So subtly is the fume of life designed,
To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind,
And leave me once again undone, possessed.

Think not for this, however, this poor treason
Of my stout blood against my staggering brain,
I shall remember you with love, or season
My scorn with pity - let me make it plain:
I find this frenzy insufficient reason
For conversation when we meet again."