Sorry to hear about the death in the family. My condolences. 7 hours driving....ugh. After the stress of the death and car drive, it's nice that you could have a relaxing start to the weekend afterwards.
Contemplating the flowers sounds like a great exercise in mindfulness. I sometimes do that. Nature always amazes me when I think things. How these little grains of pollen can come off and grow into entirely new flowers and plants.
I find peaceful moments in the same kinds of things. Whether it is in my 20 minutes of Zen meditation daily or in some kind of other mindful practice. Anything we do deliberately can be a mindful practice. I get a lot of peace from cleaning my fountain pens slowly and quietly, for one.
Thanks mate, I'm rather pragmatic about death generally, but it still affects me of course. The drive was a bit of a killer although long distances in Australia are taken in our stride as everywhere is a long way off.
The nature thing, yep it's awesome right? The only frustration is that the bloody bees wouldn't keep still for my shots so I gave up. Bees will be bees.
Yes indeed. I find it is so and that's one of the reasons I like making ammunition...it's relaxing and meditative in the same way actual meditation is, weeding, cleaning fountain pens, building Lego etc.