Spring in October

Right now, it feels a lot like spring at Dancing Deer. It hasn’t been the weather, it’s all about renewal and new beginnings and the excitement that can come when you stand in a doorway.

There’s something almost intoxicating about coming off this cleaning and repainting of the house and starting in earnest on the landscaping and knowing that, with every clump of earth that is turned and every bush that is planted or replanted, we’re nearer to the place we want to go.

And even though it doesn’t look quite as pretty as it will look when we’re done, it’s already gorgeous here. Sometimes I laugh to myself about that. Landscaping! When you look out the window and see those rolling fields, see the stands of oaks and -- yes -- catch a glimpse of a deer grazing in one of the meadows, you know that, no matter what beautification we get up to around here, there are some things we’ll never try to improve on. We never could.

With the cleaning and repainting of the main house complete, we’ve been pleased to have been able to share Dancing Deer with a small number of other non-profit organizations.