Don’t you just wish you had a crystal ball sometimes? To look into where you are going and see whether or not it’s where you want to be. To have the ability to stop yourself falling into a pit. Sometimes, when you look back, you remember a critical point when everything changed yet you didn’t see it at the time.

Sometimes though, you just know that if you’d looked forward and seen where you are now, you’d have rushed towards it and embraced it as soon as you could, rather than waiting. There may be a handful of ‘perfect moments’ in any one human being’s life and recognising them is a challenge. I have come to realise that sometimes I have held back too much for fear of being hurt. Sometimes I have missed my moment.

But no more. No more waiting to see what will happen and no more hesitation. Now I have rubbed the crystal balls and seen my future. It is here.

These little ‘crystal balls’ are really the balls from a Galileo’s Thermometer. I don’t know how or why they came to be scattered around our new garden but they were. What’s strange is their coloured water has turned clear and their brass temperature tags are long gone.

I picked them up and brought them in to photograph and I’m quite pleased with the result. There is much, much more here to shoot. Much more to see. Many more moments of discovery and delight. Lots of life to live. 2006 is here. Our new life is here. I trust in my instinct and in my ability to guide me through. No more pits.

I have my crystal balls now……..

Last year was wrapped in love