Small miracles.

It’s been a weekend of little things.

First, I got the house straightened up.  The way is now clear for some major cleaning.

Then, I did a lot of running around shopping for things that have been on my list for a while.  You know—the ‘not urgent but I’ll need these someday’ things:  the ant killer, the extra bottle of window cleaner, etc.

And I stocked up on stuff to fill the new freezer—which is also little, but big enough for us.  Now, maybe, the ice cream won’t fall out every time we open the door of the one on the fridge.

I pruned the camphor tree—which qualifies as a series of small miracles.  A) I did a pretty good job.  It’s neat and symmetrical.  B) Pruning gives me a chance to smell the camphor, which is a nice old-fashioned scent and one I like. C) Pruning the top foot off the tree opened up an unbroken line of sight to the most beautiful flowering tree in my neighbors’ yard.  Gorgeous yellow flowers.  I don’t know what they are, but I like looking at them.

But the biggest small miracle was just a tiny moment watching the lizard on the chrysanthemum.

I bought a chrysanthemum plant when I was shopping.  Just a small one.  Yellow.  Because it was cheerful looking.  I haven’t had a chance to transfer it to a more permanent location, but I set the small pot on top of the dirt in an enormous, but plant-free, pot on the patio.  It’s just outside the window, and therein lies the tale.

In the middle of the various other things I was doing today, I remembered I had this new chrysanthemum, and I stepped over to the window for a moment of appreciation.  Sitting right on top of the densely packed yellow blossoms, with a royal air of contentment, was a little brown lizard.

I think that it was a brown anole—although I confess to a certain amount of willful ignorance where reptiles are concerned.

What I do know is that I have never seen something so satisfied with its perch as this little lizard appeared to be.

And, really, why not?

Wouldn’t you like to be sitting on a bed of flowers, in the sunshine, overlooking the water right now?  I consider it more than a small miracle that both the lizard and I had that moment to enjoy that view.