Patterns.....

A pretty severe storm hit Port the other night. The lightning show up to the north of us was amazing and when the rain and wind hit about 9:00 it was very impressive. The forecast was for gusts over 60 mph and I think that's what we got....but it also meant that the storm moved through very quickly.

The following morning we had perfect weather.....just lovely for my first early morning walk-the-dog.  As I came around a familiar corner I glanced down and saw this.

Now Fenway and I have crossed this specific piece of sidewalk hundreds if not thousands of times since we moved to the condo. But today I noticed the heart....what a nice way to start the day.  We continued on walking along the lake and around the bandstand and then back to the condo from the north.

Almost home, dodging a few left-over puddles, something else caught my eye. Was I walking along the beach? If I took off my shoes would I be wading through waves?

Nope....this was just sand and dirt from the stream that had washed off sidewalks and was caught by curbing along the road. This residue of flooding from a few weeks ago had been drying out and sitting unnoticed. But what lovely patterns....these would make amazing neutral quilt fabric! And if I did take off my shoes and walk in it, memories of beach walking would come flooding back.  

Small things.....often it's just the small things that make a walk special. I have to remind my self to look down more often.