life beyond the view

Each morning as I get up with the kids, this is the view that greets me as I lift the shades and wait for the sun to light up this corner of creation. The large oak tree casting its long shadow across the lush green grass. The trees budding and leafing along the river that moves and flows and captures the changing colors of the sky. The air is filled with flapping birds, flying back and forth among the trees, singing and calling to each other and no one in particular. The black and grey squirrels scamper around, up one tree and down the other side, across the top of our fence and into our neighbor's yard. Today, hundreds of butterflies are zipping and fluttering right past our noses and our nets. We are playing catch and release today since we need only one for our growing specimen collection.
It is a wonderful world that we live in and I am so thankful for this place we can call home.