I smell Spring.. I woke today to sunshine for the first time in weeks. (Everywhere I went on my trip was cloudy). Everything felt somehow lighter. I got Gabe to school then spent an hour working on the SamStones.org web site. Working on the web site is one of those narcotics for me. When I’m deep in it, coding, restructuring, experimenting I feel like I’m  doing something positive for Sam’s memory.. This morning I was working on a photo gallery for the site. That will allow me to display photo sets from my Flickr  account. (check it out… http://samstones.org/WordPress1/index.php/Gallery/ it’s not all there yet.. but then again.. neither am I) The coding part is fun… looking at all these great Sam pictures is also wonderful… and hard at the same time. I had to stop several times because the pictures were too beautiful for me to look at.. do you know what I mean ?

   Around 9 I started my work day..   I was still feeling a bit under the weather so I decided to work at home again..  I had one of my most productive days this year.   When I work at home I have almost no distractions… which give me almost no sense of time passing. The first time I stood up I found that it was time for lunch. Chai was staring at me all morning so I decided to take her out for a walk/snowshoe. Given the warm  weather.. I figured this might be the last chance for a decent snowshoe romp. While the yard had many bare spots.. the woods were still had snow so deep that Chai was falling in up to her belly in places.

We managed to slog our way up to our favorite rock in high pasture and look out over our part of the valley.

It was beautiful to see the change of seasons coming on. Hard to believe that this time next month (or so)  it will all be turning green.  We looped back down to the road just in time for my snowshoe strap to come loose.. it must have been a sign that the season was over. Chai and I walked back on the road.. the mud was ankle deep in places. Ahh Spring.

     We got back to the house to streaming sunshine .. I managed to catch a great rainbow shadow from one of our window prisms 

I worked the rest of the day until Diane and Chai dragged me outside for another walk around 6 PM..

 

This is more outdoor time than I’ve had in several weeks and it felt great..    You know.. I can feel Spring everywhere.. even in my heart, Sam.

-jc