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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless;
peacocks and lilies for instance.


— John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 1851

These are my Treasures for the past three weeks.

• Waking up with a kitty

• Watching a pigeon bringing twigs to build a nest, next door to the diner

• A periwinkle blue Mercedes convertble. Periwinkle was one of my favorite crayon colors as a child.

• Medjool Dates

• The ravens across the street – gronk gronk gronkl

• A woman in knee-high leather(?) boots with folded-over tops and stiletto heels, black mini dress with short flouncy sleeves. A bit much for 11am on a Saturday but she looked good in it.

• Two mule deer does and their fawns, one quite young. Ahhh. Speckles!

• The HMB Tweetup. Meeting so many people

• swallows

• a hot pink setting sun

• Harney & Sons "Paris"" flavored black tea. Black tea with currant, caramel, and citrus. In a "single silken sachet". Yum.

• two pelicans flying west at Skyline Blvd near our neighborhood. Ooh.

• Watching the cat playing with the "ball in a track too. Pat. Rolllll. Pat.

• fluorescent shoelaces

Treasures are positive things that strike my fancy, that make me feel happy or thankful or interested. Treasures are memories encapsulated in just a few words.