There are benefits to getting up early in the morning. I didn't want to get up this morning at 6:55, but I have to walk Daisy AS SOON AS I GET UP (her capitals) and Will had soccer pictures at 9, so up I got. We walked down to the park as we always do on the weekend, and what a sky! When we started out, it was brilliant red and as we went along, it turned golden and then blue with pinky-peach clouds. The tide was in and the water was like glass and the trees are turning colours and it was really lovely.
Yesterday, Ant and I joined the Lower Mainland Green Team to pull out invasive ivy in Rocky Point Park. It was a good day. We worked hard but everyone was in good spirits and we helped the trees. It felt good to peel off that sneaky ivy from a tree trunk and imagine the tree breathing a sigh of relief. Ivy can kill a tree within ten years.
I am reading this mystery series by Louise Penny featuring a detective with the Quebec Surete (I can't get the right accents -- I hope you know what I mean) called Armand Gamache. I discovered it by listening to one of her books in the car -- The Beautiful Mystery -- about a murder in a monastery. I am now reading the first book in the series -- Still Life. In the intro, she thanks a whole gamut of people -- friends, family, book club members, her editors, other writers. I was reading it and thinking, "gee, she has a lot of friends" and feeling a bit envious. Then at the end of the intro, she says, "I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank". It's like she read my mind!
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