Happy Monday

Although Happiness Week was scheduled to start today, it really started for me yesterday, so I am directing you to read yesterday's post. I'm on vacation and unexpected happiness has continued...I am in love with this totally unexpected delight of a vacation. Short -- only 2 days, but oh, the happiness meter is peaking and staying the course, and it has spilled into Monday and will probably carry me through the week, even though I return home tomorrow afternoon. A beautiful lake, with warm water to jump gleefully into every couple of hours, friends that are enjoying the place as much as my husband and I are. And the air -- there is nothing quite like the air here, especially late in the afternoon. It's magical...

Warm Hazy Lazy Sunday Afternoon at Blue Lake

OMG what a beautiful Sunday afternoon at Blue Lake. I wasn't expecting much of anything as we drove up 101. Then we pulled off onto a non-descript road, went around the bend -- and there it was -- the soft, hazy Blue Lake. This is exactly what I have been dreaming of for years...a warm lake that I could swim in and feel a joyful, sensual (and I mean all the senses fully alive) moving through the world magical feeling. I jumped into the water ahead of everyone and tore through it like a mad woman, splashing and yelling at the top of my voice, and grabbing my husband by the shoulders and waist and wrestlin' him under the water for the sheer joy of it. I have been dreaming of a lake like this for over 40 years. There was even a rope swing on the lake side that I grabbed onto and swung like Tarzan over the lake's surface to drop screaming into the water. Several times. I came back to my room and that feeling I love welled up in me, a soft blue leafy green haziness, warm like kisses that will never be erased from my memory. two Van Morrison songs came up on my ipod shuffle, one right after the other, and the day was complete...and not yet over....