5:52 AM

I was awoken today by a fairly loud early morning storm.  It was still fully dark at 4AM, letting the lighting fully illuminate the neighborhood, while thunder rolled and shook the house.  I watched, listened, and read til it was time to get up for real and start my day.  I had finished my book, and was l still kind of stuck in setting of the book.  I was imagining Paris in the fall, and what it would have been like in 1938 but was drawn back to 2012 when I walked by a window and saw the sky.

Let's just say that life has not been all that simple of late.  The view from the porch, however, was simple.  And beautiful.