I am in a mood for beauty

I do not know what has gotten into me, but it suddenly feels like everything I see is almost overwhelmingly beautiful. Almost painfully beautiful. I am feeling overwhelmed by the cranes and their colts (they are giving them flying lessons daily now), by the roadside flowers (did the DOT back-off on mowing roadsides lately? It it so pretty out there), by the color of the sunsets over the lake from our north facing deck. I am sure you are thinking it is probably because we are finally back in our beloved home after a 14 months in an apartment following the fire. But I feel like more than that is going on. I feel tapped into something.

By the way, I went almost entirely media free following the fire, so perhaps that is contributing. Whatever it is, I love it.

Case in point: a single over-wintered cattail leaf bent into a pleasing curve suggesting a staff. So beautiful.
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cattail leaf (dried from being over-wintered)