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Day 328-The Sun Rises (Villanelle)

The waves glisten as the crash upon the sand;
The beach shimmers in the early morning;
The sun rises with colors so grand.

Seagulls dance along the strand,
In the water’s edge they are playing;
The waves glisten as the crash upon the sand.

The surf, still cold upon my hand,
Against my skin is crashing;
The sun rises with colors so grand.

Pinks, golds, purples, oranges and blues reflect across the water and the land;
In the sky, higher and higher the sun is gliding;
The waves glisten as they crash upon the sand.

Darkness gives in to dawn at nature’s command,
As clouds take on a gold lining;
The sun rises with colors so grand.

Wonder and beauty surround me as on the beach I stand,
Captivated and watching,
The waves glisten as they crash upon the sand;
The sun rises with colors so grand.

GB

So this is my April’s Fool on myself, because this poem is about the beach. It takes place there, where I am not but would like to be. And now the irony, is that is where my son is enjoying a weekend with buddies at a State Skills USA competition.

TGIF -Day 2

In the interest of keeping this ongoing and up to date, I pause to enter a snippet for day 2 of my new blog. Spell check doesn’t like that word, oh well, too bad, it works for today.

It is a cloudy, dreary, yet mostly rain-less day in the Texas Hills. It looks cold but is instead muggy and warm. Apparently it is the same down in Clute where our SystemsGo team has been setting up for tomorrow’s rocket shoot for the Houston area. Lift off begins tomorrow through Sunday. Good luck to all the schools participating in this weekend’s event, may all tests be successful and recovery be 100%.

I understand that most of the set up that could be done today was completed by around noon. All was going well. Only complaint she had, was that love was in the air with the resident Love Bugs and they were all borrowing Chelsea’s truck to “play” and she was not appreciating that very much. On the bright side, if that is the worst of things, then I do believe they will all do well, team and bugs alike.

May I say though that if an alligator grabs your rocket, please just let him keep it. A message to the launch and recovery teams, if Chelsea falls in an alligator inhabited marsh while a looking for a rocket, save her and leave the rocket!!!

That was just for you, Chelsea, I knew you would appreciate it, just a little miscommunication flash back from years past. Hope you all have a great time and things go really well.

If there are any updates forth coming to share from that shoot this weekend, I will try to share them, but quite often they are super busy and details are limited and sparse. I do not know for sure if the video link will be available for this shoot that will be available at the Fredericksburg shoot next week. If it is, it should be available on the SystemsGo website I posted yesterday.

www.systemsgo.org

Ok, just to prove that I do write other than just blogging, here is a poem I wrote back in March and haven’t shared yet.

Spring Unfolds

Spring unfolds
Amid chill, warmth, and wet.
Temperatures yo-yo between hot and cold,
As rain in short bursts,
The parched earth strains to hold.

Nature rallies to Spring’s efforts,
Exploding with new growth and color;
Vivid greens blanket the prairies
And open like an umbrella,
Covering the trees.

Vibrant yellows, pinks, purples and blues
Create a patchwork quilt,
Across the hills and fields,
As flowers lift their faces
To the warmth the sun yields.

The world becomes a brightly colored canvas;
Changing and growing each day,
As a painting unfolds;
More beautiful and grand
For all mankind to behold.

Ginger
3/27/15