Morning Sketch Meditations: Changes

 Morning Meditation means loading my backpack 
with my drawing tools & wandering with my sketchbook.
(This one is new, a tiny, 51/2 X 31/2" Paperblanks.)

Oh! The gifts of stopping to see! A sailboat, 

so slightly turning to & fro in the morning breeze...

Slight movement, but with the early morning light, 

shadows & reflections, & my tranquil frame of mind, 

I  experience them as great, miraculous changes.

My little boat is now big 

in relation to a shore bird neighbor!

 Early morning by the harbor means greeting others who are also welcoming the new day. 
They are mostly walkers & I love sharing their fresh energy. 
Morning seems to open us to health & happiness.

 Drawing/meditation can happen any time during the day.

Here,  Moose Point State Park, a pause after walking the

sweet shore & woods trail loop on a late afternoon. 

No fantastic mountain summits, just quiet serenity at ground level.

Drawing/meditation frees me up from preconceived ideas.

I returned another morning to the harbor thinking I'd be looking at more boats. 
But what immediately caught my eye was a lily plant full of seed pods. 
They are little sculptures that I often overlook in relation to their springtime blossom counterparts. 
Stalks were in different stages of aging & dying, from full green pods to withered, shriveled, brown ones. 
One lily even had all this as well as her vivid yellow blossoms! 

The change of seasons & life were displayed by
a single lily plant!