Little things

Thinking of my friends in the frozen north, I hate to tell you that I sat out on the family's deck this afternoon and the sun was so hot I had to take off my sweater but it really felt good. There's a resident hawk up there as well that sits in the neighbor's tree. She's come to visit two days running now. Then when I got home I discovered that my brave little daffodil survived the battering cold of last week and flowered today. It's a good enough life.