Catching Up

Busy Summer!  I've been helping my folks move.

I've been saying good bye to the woods on my parent's old place.  I will miss the land they've lived on these past dozen years or so.  Tomorrow the place will go to the new owners.  Only one more trip back for me to gather up three plants my mom wanted to keep and couldn't fit into the trailer.  I feel like I won't be able to rest until I get them safely tucked into their temporary sanctuary at my home.

Nor will I feel truly rested until I know that my parents won't need to make any more trips back and forth moving things.  Some things are being temporarily stored at my home to be moved at a more convenient time.

I know...

It's usually the kids who store their things with their parents.

I was sad yesterday as I meandered through the woodland trails, saying good bye to everything.  I know this new family - with young children - will embrace the land, as my family has.  And it, in turn will welcome them.  Those woods are a wonderland.

But the new home my parents have, is also a wonderland, and I find myself wanting to live there too.  They have traded old cedars for young pine, and misty rain for sun and wind.  The new place is also magical.  It makes me happy for them.  And they are still close enough for me to make a day trip or stay the week end.

Good byes are hard.  Leaving old friends for new...  Trading the familiar for the new adventure...