Sharon, I am glad to hear that you are working on the book, and that the new pattern of your days is fallling into place. I've always thought that it was a great idea to put those stories into book format.
I love the paintings too. You have so much talent.
Signs of spring are slowly but surely coming to my woodlands in Northern VA. The first to bloom are the snowdrops. I didn't plant them, they just appeared. A friend died here many years ago in a dirt bike accident. He often talked to me while I was out working in the gardens, and mentioned that his favorite flowers were snowdrops. Several years after he died, they showed up in the area of the garden that he was helping with just a few hours before the accident happened. I have not discovered any others anywhere on all this acreage. I don't question it. To me, these snowdrops are an unexplainable sign from a greater power and a reminder that the cycle and beauty of life goes on, even as another life is lost. The sight of snowdrops always lifts my spirits.
