Here is another sign of spring - more on the way.
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Funny, the associations things bring to mind. These two clothes pins have the afternoon "off." They are just there, taking in the afternoon sun and a nice, warm breeze...just blowin' in the wind. When I was in high school, I would hang out with friends in a parking lot of a big ice cream place called "Bond's." My dad would always ask what I was going to do, and I would mumble "just hanging out,"....a phrase which drove him crazy. When I passed these clothes pins I thought of that long ago time - as I was just hanging out, this afternoon.
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This is the first real sign of spring I have seen - there will be full blossoms soon. This was taken along the path behind the old monastery building.
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There are turkeys here - we see them almost every day. I should have taken this one in color. Maybe I will try that later this afternoon. Someone once told me that the hardest thing to see "in the wild" are wild turkeys. Such sightings come quite easily here. I never knew that they could fly - it takes them a while to rev up, but, like a plane, once they get enough of ground speed up, they are aloft. They make quite a racket when they do so.
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Foggy Morning

It is a foggy morning - but it is supposed to clear later on. I figured out - I think - how to make a link on this thing. Here is a recent article I wrote. Let's see if it works.

Our water tower - if you have read William Least Heat Moon's "Blue Highways," this is the tower he saw which attracted and guided him here, to the monastery, where he stayed for a few days. There is a section in his book about his stay here, as well as a few photographs. It is a wonderful book.
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Jackson Square, New Orleans - from a recent trip to Louisana, when I went to visit my mom.
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St. Joseph's Hospital, Atlanta.
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St. Joseph's Hospital, in Atlanta - so much glass and concrete - reflections galore in any of the windows.
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Our sanctuary steps. In the morning, the play of light across the sanctuary is beautiful, as the light shines through the windows and onto the glass-like floor.
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Early February

Honey Creek winds its way through our property and here is a small stretch of it. It is cooler in this spot in the summer, and there is a small bridge with a ledge. It is a nice place to sit and mull things over on a hot summer day.
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The Rule says that we are supposed to discard what we do not really need - but I am glad that we have not taken that to the extreme. There are some old, beautiful things in all sorts of places around here. I do not know what the use of the metal can was - we used to have a dairy farm here, some years back. Maybe it is from those days.
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There are already buds on a lot of the trees here - maybe a sign of an early spring. Someone told me that there are already daffodils down by the lake. Maybe I will head down there tomorrow and take some pictures.
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