I had a lot of driving to do today. First, I had to get to Bennington to get some fresh Cannabis I use to help me get to sleep. I got a few new gummies that help me decompress after a day of writing and more writing. The sleeping gummies have been a complete success, the daytime calmdown gummies are still a work in progress.
I have to buy my cannabis in Vermont, the New York State program is a catastrophe. I won’t buy my cannabis illegally.
Then I went to make a giant grocery shop, also in Bennington. (Maria does the muscle work, I do the shopping).
I also went into town to buy something for Valentine’s Day.
Maria suspects I got something for her, but I have no comment to make about what I bought. We have both agreed not to buy presidents for one another on Valentine’s Day another of those holidays with murky, mostly commercial, meaning.
I got home just in time to see the rain clouds show up and drown out the sun. It will be raining for a few hours. Maria was home from a friend’s lunch and when I pulled into the driveway she was sitting with Zip in her lap, looking out at the world.
Zip loves and loves to be loved. It works. He fully trusts the both of us now.
Tomorrow, back to the farmer’s market and then a day of rest. Monday we go downstate to check out a new knitting mill for our sheep’s wool.
We’re meeting with the new mill owner in Columbia County to see if he can spin some yarn for Maria and her sheep. Rumor has it he was a successful Broadway actor. Next Thursday, another implant. The week after, another toe surgery. All is well.
Horses on the way to Vermont.
The yellow barn is my favorite standing barn for my pictures.
Rte 68 in Vermont, dusk as a new storm blows in.
For the first time, I opened up my 100-400 to its maximum telephoto lens. I was about 30 ars away when I took this photo. That’s the lonest shot I took, and look at the detail from that far. It will help me with bird and nature pictures, but also with flowers and other pictures.
Dusk, and it started to get dark and windy early. I was trying to catch the mood, shooting right through the apple tree limbs.
I looked at the pictures three times to imprint the beauty to my mind. So much beauty! Then I contemplated what you might have bought for Maria. You have agreed not to give gifts but I think that giving is one of your love languages and it will be hard for you to adhere to this promise. You like best the surprise gift, simple things of beauty that catch your eye and touch the heart. You may or may not tell us what you got for her so I will have to wait to see if I am right. Thank you for the gift of the lovely pictures and the sharing of your day.
I confess, I did buy a surprise gift, but she doesn’t read the comment posts so I think I can get away with it…