was looking through the christmas cards that have come to the house tonight and came across this message scribbled in one from the doctor who delivered me:
At five in the morning the world looks plausible.
I still feel anxious as with an imminent birth.
Maybe Christmas is different for an obstetrician as I know all the things that can go wrong. Joseph doesn’t.
But have faith.
and this is

an unexpected colony of ladybugs in the sc mountains!
never seen anything like it, have no idea what precisely they were all doing there, though they picked a perfect redwood shadowed meadow to do it.




the only insects that coming across mounds of don’t freak me out…
big sur at dawn:

and at day:

and sc dusk, two times over:


love california, God breathes so exceptionally beautifully here, though i admit i’m biased.
my love to all, especially those whose addresses were especially difficult to track down in a timely manner.
though i am working on the twelve days of christmas plan…