Somehow, I think these final weeks of the year are going to fly by.

Here are three beautiful things from my past week:

1. A village fire department uses their ladder truck to string lights on the pine tree out front.

2. Karen’s and my traditional afternoon visit is accompanied by Marshall and Livia. We eat breakfast for lunch and stroll along the river walk. We kick nuts on the path, tickle each other with the long river grasses, draw with sticks, and bang on a new hollow sculpture and the metal benches along the way.

3. Boots I ordered during a really good sale arrive. I feel capable of piloting a dirigible in them if the need arises. (Why, oh why, does the need never arise?)

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world this week?