pelicans!

you can't see them very well in this picture but every spring shelley calls me with a julilant phone call that the pelicans are back. sometimes 4 or 5 have come to enjoy the pond sometimes 15 appear. they stay for a week or so and then head somewhere else. shelley's love for all animals has over the years taken seed and i have to admit i appreciate animals much more and now look forward to this happy sign of spring that i would normally have hardly noticed let alone look forward to. 

that's one of the blessings of friendship....
new eyes, new thoughts, greater awareness, extending one's life to be bigger than it was before. 

another's life in a small way becomes also part of my own. 

and i am richer for it.