what i love

warm sand, sunsets, sunrise, blue crab, sound of the surf, sand dollars, french press coffee, sashimi and nigiri, warm summer nights, hoarfrost, a full moon, candles, Peter and the Wolf, bamboo, hemp rope, silk, cashmere, chickens, goats and sheep, The Little Prince, cats, muscle cars, orchids, dirt, meadows, the Rocky Mountains, glider planes, blue sky, puffy clouds, kites, rainbows, Westminster chimes, Turkish coffee, iron gates, sapphires, cemeteries, papayas, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, stained glass, Montana Del Oro, skin, swings, old Saturday Night Live, violets, Patsy Cline, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, flowers in a vase, Atlas Shrugged, lace, old cookbooks, Venus and Mars, gas lights, cobblestone streets, slate, babbling brooks, slow moving streams, raging rivers, WWII pin up girls, Calvin & Hobbs, dragonflies and butterflies, The Missouri River, telescopes, cast iron, ice cold milk, brick walls covered with ivy, orchids, glow sticks, honeysuckle, the smell of rain on hot pavement, sake, liverwurst on white bread, fireplaces and wood stoves, just baked bread, down comforters, Cathedrals, lapis, quilts, small planes and helicopters, The 4 Agreements, pasta, cannolis, railroad tracks, graffiti covered freight trains, Ahi Tuna, art and science museums, words, children laughing, salsa and flamingo dancing, herons, kingfishers, loons, hot tubs, Skouras Red 2008, hummingbirds, sailboats, gumbo, used bookstores, béarnaise sauce, Gone With the Wind, massages, lightning, key lime pie, eye contact, grapevines, Santa Fe, red nail polish, potato pancakes, black seamed stockings, Moro Bay, clam chowder, paper birches, sealing wax, gardening books, sipping tequila, Stranger in a Strange Land, pocket watches, pate, conversation, hugs, watercolors, pelicans, clam chowder, hummingbirds A Song for You, freedom, snakes, Alice’s Restaurant, tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, sand castles, raptors, Merrill hiking boots, floggers, muscled arms, pickled ginger, 2 dollar notes, stick pins, vintage perfume bottles, Star Trek, leather, mangoes, lightning bugs, the Milky Way, bubblegum pink lipstick, marching bands, geocaching, women with spunk, Men with 5 o’clock shadows, thunderstorms, friends and family-every last one of them, You, and Me.