Mother Nature got up from a languid autumn nap. Stretched. Then browsed a catalog of weather while drinking a double-shot of espresso. The result? A caffeine infused shopping spree of snow, sun, cold, more snow, single digit temps, creative cloud skies, warm weather, lightning, rain, thunder, hot afternoons and mud.

Loop hike on my mountain (last week)

Today? Rain and more rain after a starry night. Life itself feels super-charged like the weather. Moments during the past week were as dark and thick as sludge left in the bottom of a delicate white coffee cup. Soft and hard. Tender and harsh. Poignant and painful. Sweet and bitter. Precious and precarious. The result?

Inspiration.