Red Dragonflies
- Jul 23, 2017
- 2 min read
Today, I am watching red dragonflies.
They are playing over the natural swimming pool water in front of our house. I didn´t even know that dragonflies came in red. Why are they red? Although why are they normally blue? What are they doing and where are they going?
These are thoughts and questions, I never thought I would have at 8am on a Monday morning, but how nice it is to have the head space and time to do so.
House sitting, volunteering, woofing…whatever you call it, it seems to me to be a brilliant way to spend time in a place you perhaps thought you´d never get to explore or experience. Or perhaps a place you never get enough time to truly enjoy.
We are currently house sitting and it´s a pretty nice job to say the least. The ´job´ predominantly entails watering and tending to the garden. It´s a hot Spanish summers day, the sun is baking down but with a lovely cool breeze coming off the Sierra Nevada mountains. The bells of the neighbour’s goats tinker in the background, a donkey braes, and the bees are calmly buzzing around the lavender.
It´s a Monday morning, so when Nick takes a break from pruning the cherry tree, we follow our weekly ritual of wishing each other a very happy Monday morning. We give a rather indulgent but satisfying thought to our former colleagues. They are no doubt waiting in line in the hectic queue for the train or for the lift that takes them up to the 28th floor and their weekly corporate home.
This afternoon I will sweep up the wisteria flowers, and then hang out with some friendly but rather noisy frogs whilst I rake out leaves from the pool, all whilst making sure I soak up sufficient Mediterranean sun to keep my vitamin D levels nicely topped up.
Tomorrow? I think I´ll pick some cherries and see what the dragonflies are up to again…
Happy Monday everyone!
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