"Suffused" was the verb that struck me as I walked out my back door on this indescribable Sunday morning, July 4, 2010. I turned the corner from my back stoop to my front lawn and saw this:
How could anyone look at that and not be suffused with joy? So it was pile the dogs in the car and head for Starbucks then Pony Pasture. Where we were immediately greeted with this:
Seriously, can you even believe that? If you want a sight more beautiful than that you're just plain greedy. If heaven's even half that beautiful it will be beyond compare.
So we wander down the riverbank for a while; it was ongoing. One more shot, although this hardly does justice to a day like this:
All of this before we were half a mile into a two mile hike. And it only got better. At the second beach my friend Betsy counted twenty-four dogs before they got too scrambled up for her to keep count. All playing together, running in and out of the water, as happy as could be. It's been an amazing start to the day. I'm eagerly anticipating the rest. Have a Happy Fourth,
Love, Jay, Ivory, Mackey, Max, Roux and our myriad 4-legged and 2-legged family.
