Shopping at Costco is fraught with danger. When Laurie comes along we take double the time and spend twice the money as when I go alone. For instance, I would have only bought one set of 4 RED poinsettias, because I thought the PINK ones looked anemic. Then there's the assorted gift sacks and designer tags that would NOT have registered in my male reptile brain. Laurie might see them later in one of the Costco flyers we get in the mail and say something like "They had those cute sacks and tags and you didn't notice?"
Then there's loading cases, flats and boxes of goods into the carts, muscling the carts around the warehouse, loading it all into the car, then unloading it and carrying it all into the house. I felt like a pack animal as I made nine round trips between the car and the house, totaling a little over a quarter mile, to get everything inside. Then there's reorganizing the shelves, refrigerators and freezers to make room for everything.
Laurie has the eight pink poinsettias lined up in front of the mirror, four on each side of a large, red amaryllis. These might just be our Christmas decorations this year, as neither of us have much energy to put up lights or decorate a bonsai.
Continuing with winter leaves, the photo of the day caught my eye early this morning while I was getting ready to leave the house. The second photo was taken one cold morning when I was leaving the bosque after checking out life in the predawn light.
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