Ablaze with Color!

It's crape myrtle time here in northern California, and our city is ablaze with color. Trees loaded with blossoms line many city streets and most yards. The blooms come in shades from pale lavender to deep burgundy red. Some are even stark, brilliant white. The trees are everywhere!

I exult in crape myrtle time and look forward every year to the summer weeks when our world fills with color. When we chose the landscaping for this home, you can guess what I chose. These are the views looking both ways from my front porch.










It's possible there are folks who don't appreciate these trees as I do. Maybe they're allergic? I suppose that would justify turning one's back on this glory. For me, when the crape myrtle are blooming and my roses follow suit, it's easy to overlook much of what's wrong in the world. A world this beautiful must also have a great deal of good in it.

For fourteen months in 2017 and 2018, my husband and I lived in Kayenta, Arizona in the heart of the Navajo Nation. Our Navajo friends have a traditional ceremony called the Beauty Way which admonishes us to "walk in beauty."


Wherever you are this summer, may you also walk in beauty.