This is the view I long to see out the back of my next home. In our home now, I need to walk outside and turn my head to the east to see this, which doesn't seem like much to complain about. However, to see this while I'm at the kitchen sink, sitting at the dining table, in the family room, or relaxing on a back deck would never grow old. There is something about these Wasatch Mountains that speaks to my soul. I'll be driving the same streets I drive everyday and various images of them take my breath away day after day. They're as beautiful with sun streaming through clouds as they are in overcast, rainy weather or covered in white snow. I'm sure my family tires of me making such a big deal of them so often. You are probably tiring of me making a big deal of it right now. Last week, I heard a speaker say that C.S. Lewis believed the reason certain aspects of nature are so beautiful to us is that they stir in our hearts a subconscious longing for where we lived before this earthly home. Something like that, though I'm sure the actual quote is much more eloquent. I don't know where it's written (anyone?), but I figure he must be right because I can never seem to get enough...
Sigh.
On a lighter note...
This is a picture of what I commonly find inside our back door. In case you can’t tell, they are dead potato bugs. And a complete mystery to us. Why do they come inside? Why are they dead? Why do they die in groups? Why is this the only place we find them? How many has Fisher eaten without us realizing it?Questions like these need answers. The other day, I actually witnessed a LIVE potato bug walking on the same tile. He was alone. Why wasn’t HE dead yet? Strangely enough, I scooped him up and released him into the wild. Now he can find his way back into our home and die naturally.
I just don’t get it.
4 comments:
Tracy--I discovered your blog from the link on Meredith's page. I am so impressed! What a great alternative to scrapbooking--I think you're onto something. Have you figured out a way to save the blogs permanently or print them out?
Reading your posts has made me thankful not to be pregnant! I remember those last few miserable weeks with Corinne! I hope my family doesn't remember how irritable and complaining I was. Hang in there!
Since I don't think I'll be needing any more, here are some boy names I like. It seems to me that you need to stick with a two-syllable name, just so he feels like he fits in with his siblings :), so think about Garrett, Ashton, Benson, and this might not be a name to use here in Utah, but I seriously considered Payson, because that's where I was born. Brian didn't like it, however, and said if we used Payson we also had to use Vernal, because that's where he was born. So that ended that discussion! It's so much easier to find dozens of names you don't like than to find a couple that you love. Good luck!
Haha, Vernal. That line of thinking leaves us with Provo or Honolulu, so I'm thinking no. Thanks for the ideas and for realizing why I think we need a 2- syllable name too! Great minds...
I see you found nymbler... it's fun!
Yes! It's fun and I've come up with a pretty good list from it based on our kids' names. I'm having faith that with all these lists going, THE name is going to jump out and hit us in the forehead before long. :) Now that I put a link to it everyone can have fun naming their own posterity too. Everyone is being so helpful!!
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