"Happiness is enjoying the little things."
This photo of orchid and clear crystal vase reminded me of my friend's husband so I have to tell you about him.
When we went to visit my friend and her husband in Oklahoma in 1989 they were in their 70's. Of course, both have passed. But while sis and I and baby Clint were there the hubby disappeared. Later in the morning we learned that he'd taken our car to the barn to give it a tune up, even fixed a headlight. My friend, though there was 30 years at least between us, was a great pen pal for 20 years or more. When her husband, a kind, hardworking, Christian man, came back in from his farm rounds he brought a short interestingly shaped bough of an evergreen tree.
She bustled about in her white and blue kitchen wearing a farmer's wife apron getting out a vase to fill with water. She set them honorably on the dining table. "When he comes in from his morning work he always brings me a sprig of flowers or of some plant he's come across." She let us know that she was a little embarrassed at what it was, but we could tell she was happy that he'd kept up the little love gesture.
Enjoy the little things, some day they may become the big things.
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