The Blessings of 'Small Miracles'

Today, this afternoon, I was listening to the BYU channel and there was a fill-in of 10 minutes before the next program started. It was a concert pianist with a full orchestra. They were playing classical music. I was preparing homemade vegetable beef soup in the kitchen and enjoying the music. I love classical music. I noticed that Kirsten was shaking her rattle to the rhythm of the music. As the music increased in tempo so did her rattle. I peeked around the corner and she had the happiest smile on her face. I kept an eye on her to make sure I wasn't imagining what I was hearing. She kept her rattle going to the tempo of the music and when it ended so did she, right on cue! I was so touched by this 'small miracle'! It was a joyful experience!

I got a quick shot of her here. When she sees me with the camera, she stops and drops her rattle and her performance is over! So I had to be quick! My camera has a few seconds of delay and I was trying so hard to capture her in motion! Got her! :o)

This was Kirsten when the music ended, no more rattle. She had finished!

This is a small frog that loves to 'sit' on my roses. He or she usually hides inside the rose petals and peeks out. This was taken a few days ago when the sun was out and I guess froggie decided to sun him or herself!

Mt. Rainier with its 'fun' clouds!

This was taken just as the sun was going down. I took it as a close up.

Same picture only at regular distance.

This was taken one hour 'before' the sun went down.

Same picture only a close up view.

I love the fact that all we have to do is walk out our front door and look a little to the northeast and 'click!'

Sometimes there are some very interesting cloud formations. Sometimes there will be a single cloud to the left of the mountain that make s a dead ringer for a flying saucer. Other times it looks like the mountain is wearing a beret. Other times it's a messy haystack. It's always fun to look at from early morning until sunset. When it snows and the day is clear and the sun is about 4pm the mountain is stunningly beautiful!