Time Goes by

I've logged on here several times to post a message and I DO realize it has been awhile since I posted anything. Something always got me sidetracked or I figured I'd do it later. I never in a million years thought it had been since April. What happened to May? Am I so busy that I lost a complete month? And if I am....what did I do? I know I was busy for a little bit setting up a shop in Etsy. A place to sell and buy all things handmade/vintage. But I don't recall it taking a whole month to do it. I know my beautiful niece got married one of those weekends....that didn't take a whole month. I also plan a 2 week menu and make the grocery list to go with it. That way when I head to the grocery store I know exactly what I need to get. But that doesn't take me a whole month either. Let's see....One day a week for paper work (paying bills, balancing checkbook, filing things away, going through magazines). Wow! It just hit me....I'm getting older and it takes me longer to do things, and the fact that I think I have lots of time to do it doesn't help. Now I know what happened to the month of May.....I Procrastinated!!
I do know this though. Since winter has moved on and spring and summer has returned, I find myself looking out the window more, wondering outside more, and just plain stopping and looking at things. This is one of my Flowering Crab Trees. The others are not as big or as full as this one. But in time they too will capture my attention over and over. I know that its beauty, that stops me from completing anything I set out to do, only lasts a short time before all the mesmerizing flowers are gone and its back to being a simple tree in our yard. Maybe that's what May is for. After surviving our long cold winters, May shows us that the simple things we see on a daily basis are so worth stopping to look at. For when we do...when we take the time to slow down and truly look all around us, that is when we see the beauty. So I'd like to think that I wasn't procrastinating as much as I was stopping to truly enjoy the simple things.