70 BIRTHDAYS AND SPRING JOY

Road to Hurricane Ridge
70th birthday portrait by Nathan
With all the peculiarities of life and time now, I’d planned to ignore my 70th birthday May 4 — and Nathan’s 40th on May 5.. I was going to celebrate when ‘it’s all over…’

Nathan’s time here changed my mind…with so much to celebrate, I’m cherishing every day. Yesterday gave Nathan and me the amazement of snowbanks on top of Hurricane Ridge…clear road and snow boundaries higher and higher as we climbed in the car. We have a way of saying ‘another perfect day’ which was our message at the end of hospital days…and here we are, another perfect day indeed.   Another gift:  radiation going steadily,  I am 25% through because my treatment sequence has been lowered from 36 days to 28 days.

Garden notes: daffodils crisp and fragrant still, few withered. I’m given the birthday joy of seeing hundreds of daffodils from March and April remaining hale on the first week in May. Yes, it has been cold…but the flowering goes on, and my happiness goes on with it. A few daffodils are still opening..
‘Sweetness’ and ‘High Society.’ My nursery purchase today: Bobbex deer repellent — one got into the fence last night and munched the pansies, leading to this verse:

Out there where the tulips grow

I see a fine and well-fed doe.

I wave my arms to see her run,

Because I haven’t got a gun.

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