Morning Walk at the National Arboretum (Happy May Day)
A place to drink in the beauty. For information on how to help preserve the azalea collection (which is under siege from budget cuts), please visit: “Save the Azaleas.”
A place to drink in the beauty. For information on how to help preserve the azalea collection (which is under siege from budget cuts), please visit: “Save the Azaleas.”

turkey mole; butternut squash and Brussels sprouts roasted with rosemary and garlic, buttered whole grains (rice, wild rice, millet, green wheat); beans from the garden flavored with bay, celery, and epazote; cranberry sauce with orange and cardamom; fresh garden herbs, greens, and flowers
One reason to look up is to avoid the troubled response to a view of highway and homeless shelter. The other is because I am captivated by the never ending exquisite beauty of sky and how much I can learn about my environment from the sky if I pay steady and open attention to it.
Sometimes I practice because I want to move my attention away from something unpleasant. More often it is because to practice is an abiding joy.