Mojave Light Musing

A belated happy Thanksgiving to my American readers. If you can step back from the corporate commercial side of the holiday season, this time of year is filled with a combination of busy time preparing for family and friends visits and quiet time as we reflect on and appreciate all that is good in our lives. My week "off" from teaching this Thanksgiving week was just that. I chose not to get caught up in the big spending push of "Black Friday" and all that ensues. Instead, I chose to use this time for rest, spending snippets of time with my adult children, tend to a few piles of accumulated stuff at home, and take many walks in this unseasonably warm weather.  Tomorrow, the work fray continues.......... Here are a few quick snap scenes from my week:  <-------- The Automotive Museum in San Diego, California. My son wanted to visit this during our day at Balboa Park. Me? Not so much. But, since he appeased me by allowing me a few hours at the Museum of ...

Balboa Park, San Diego.... I love this place. Museums of art and history and science. Views of the city and Coronado Bridge and San Diego Bay and all sorts of gardens. If you stand still and listen, you'll hear languages spoken from all over the world. There is way too much to experience in one day - or two - or a week. Today, we just wandered around for a few hours and this caught my attention. Lights ©Diana Shay Diehl

My dog took me for a walk late this afternoon..... He, intent on finding the elusive jackrabbit he smells on every walk. Me, intent on watching the changes in the sky........ <------------ from this.......               ........to this ------------------------------ > <------------------- to this. We found some things in our desert that we didn't like........ We've seen this exact sign in all kinds of different places on our walks. Someone has an interesting sense of humor being this sign is nowhere near a road or the trail we started off on...... Toby even posed for me by one of my favorite, stubby joshua trees. They grow thick and stocky where I live, not like some of the thinner, taller, scragglier ones in the national park.... Yep. It was a good romp. The dragging tongue says it all.......... All image ©Diana Shay Diehl

This is our morning sky of late..... a quick cell phone capture from my front porch before the shower and hot tea. Take a deep breath......can you smell the creosote, sage, and pine lingering in the freshly rained air? I hope wonder, much love, and an underlying sense of peace pervades your day. ©DianaShayDiehl

Love and healing come in all forms. I am overwhelmed by the generosity and love that finds it way upon my doorstep..... Can I ever send enough love back your way? "On a day when the wind is perfect the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.  Today is such a day."  ~ Jalaludin Rumi (1207 - 1273) Gifts of healing love....... Spend some time with dogs outdoors on a free run. Then you'll know pure, unadulterated joy....

This time of year, I like the way the light streams in from the west into my sunroom and kitchen. Every dust particle and critter hair illuminated by the golden glow of mojave light in the dead of fall. The rest just falls into the shadows.  "There is something about shadows because  you make your own mind up about what is lurking in them." ~Richard O'Brien (?) 2012©DianaShayDiehl