12/19: water, weather, and friends

Some quite not-good news from work today, but both Chris and a departmental colleague were supportive and sanity-inspiring. They actually saw the not-good news as having a substantial silver lining--and it is probably the case that they are right.

And the weather was nice enough that I could venture out on the lake in my kayak to take a break from email and worry. Here's the glorious water:


Here it is again, digitally altered:

And again:

4 comments:

Meri M. said...

... waking up to a land in white...

RR said...

Oh, Meri, we had a morning like that recently. No snow when I went to bed, and a blanket of white upon waking. Somehow it makes me feel like a child when that happens--it seems such a storybook thing.

Honoré said...

How serendipitous to turn something unsettling into works of art. Thanks for sharing this perspective; a good habit to cultivate.
Cheers~

RR said...

Thanks for your kind, kind comment, Honoré--cheers to you, too!