Fresh-Air High

Picture is slightly more pink than my eye sees it on the bush

My soul expanded so fast I nearly lost consciousness.  That's what a breath of 60 degree, exquisitely-fresh air on a spring, pure-blue-sky morning does to me.  Add to it the intoxicating fragrance of these lilac blossoms, and I'm high on life for the next two days.

Do you know the type of lilac?  Leaves are about 2 1/4" long.

What is bringing me back to earth (occasionally) is wondering what type of lilac this is.  The flowers are small--the trumpet part is 5/8" long, four petals that extend 1/4" across with a hint of pinkish purple before the flower opens.  After it opens, the flower is off-white with only the slightest suggestion of the pink/purple of its youth and with the most dazzling fragrance in the garden.  One tiny spray of this lilac will soon sweeten a good size room and slowly love the whole house into heaven.

I don't need to know its name to love it with all my heart.

There are other Things I get to do today besides breathe and be carried away by bliss, so I touch earth from time to time. I'm certain that on a scale of one to ten, however,  today I'm a 12. Find yourself a flower to smell.  Dance with it to heaven.

Between These Sheets

You wouldn't believe the fragrance in my bedroom.  If the smell of fresh air could be bottled and sold, someone would be extremely wealthy.  But for now bringing in the bed linens makes me feel rich beyond words.

This was the sky over my place today.

And here's what I did about it.  Sheets and pillowcases traveled through the wash then out to the line.  The pillows and down comforter headed straight out before the washer even started to fill.








About 4 PM I brought this precious pile of wildly perfumed bed clothes into the bedroom.  An hour later when I went to make the bed, I was nearly giddy from the bouquet of nature that filled the room. The best of the Things I get to do today is sleep in this space, between these sheets, on this pillow and under this comforter.*


*Get yourself a clothes line.  Watch the weather forecast and plan to create a little bliss for yourself one of these days!