Good so far

I was munching on my croissant in the garden in the shade this morning and wondering what images I could use to capture the year so far.  Harping back to my previous post, I wanted to share with you another incident at the gym on New Year's Eve.  The Billy Joel song 'Days to Remember' came on.  I've always liked this song and used to use it myself for a final stretch routine when I took aerobics classes in Bellerive (it is a very old song).  This time I caught the lines 'And so we embrace again behind the dunes / This beach is so cold on winter afternoons / but holding you close is like holding the summer sun. / I'm warm from the memories of days to come.'  This, of course, is a very nice idea and very relevant to Bellerive but I also realised that it is what gardening is all about.  So I thought of the beautiful Mermaid rose I bought on the way home from the gym.  E voila.  Here it is.  I have read that it was Monet's favourite rose and I've always wanted one.  Feeling very pleased with myself as I drove (I'd also bought some new towels in a sale - first new ones for about 10 years...), I was thinking what would make the day happy for Steve.  Selling a painting, I thought.  When I got home, he had sold one of his Sand Series.  So another good reason for a glass of bubbly.  And then, exhausted from all this early morning thinking, I realised that the table illustrated how I like my life to be.

At which point Steve came in to say he'd sold another painting - a dog portrait this time.  May the year continue in this vein.