Today I received a day-changing message, an email from Laurel, with a link to my favourite colour. Which reminded me of something I’d been neglecting…. here’s a picture of what it was and what it prompted me to do:
The To Do list grew…
- Use my yellow fountain pen more.
- Take more photos.
- Open the garden door. Venture outside. Daily.
- Breathe in deeply, the sweet thrills of spring. The sounds and sights sensations. Taste the trilling thrown tree to tree by fresh-feathered frolickers.
- Pleasure-seeking: take more photos.
- Yellow, why not?
- What other colour says smile at the candid camera quite so cheerily?
- Maybe chocolate? Like these chocolate-coloured hellebores? Or chomping on chocolate chicklets?
- Done. Full-stop.

April 20, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Let the stress undressing begin!
Glad to see (yellow) pen to paper to print!
P.S. Yellow is one of my favourite colours,too!
April 20, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Thanks to Marianna (above) who mentioned this post on Twitter. Your post helped me pause long enough to realize I’ve been going much too fast to enjoy the ride. Your short list of things to do seems like the perfect antidote to this culture’s rough edges. Thank you for reminding me about what’s vital.
Please write more–if you can squeeze it in.
April 20, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Your blog is alive!
April 20, 2010 at 8:03 pm
I’m in awe that you’ve chocolate-colored hellebores in your own back yard!
(my L.A. smog filled brain is still wrapping itself around this wonder)
Thank you for sharing this!