Wanted: Some Sunshine

I haven't really been paying attention to the rest of the world but here in Maine, all it has been doing is raining. Until Sunday, I had almost given up hope that it would stop raning. There are records being set all over around here for the number of inches we have been getting. (Click Here).

For the most part this weekend Aaron and I were inside. We don't mind it too much because it allows us to read, watch movies, eat, etc... All things we love to do! However, Sunday (when there was a brake in the rain.) we decided to go to the closest state park, Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park, and do something we hadn't done yet just sit there. We have walked/hiked a lot of the state parks around us and they are awesome. But we decided to take a book (me)/magazine (Aaron), sit and enjoy the calm that comes with the end of the day.

It was so calming to sit and read as the waves hit the rocks around us. We weren't on the ocean but we were close in Casco Bay. While reading I was still able to take in the sounds and smells that surrounded me. Aaron really liked it too! As we were hiking back to the car he said "we will have to do that again!" It was the most calm I had felt in awhile. I suggest a night of reading/sitting in a calm place to anyone!

I didn't get any good photos because it was still cloudy out but I was able to capture this mushroom. Aaron spotted it amongst the trees.

Does anyone else think this mushroom resembles the colors of the sun? I do! And then I got to thinking that although the sun hasn't been showing itself much around here, maybe this was God's way of telling me that you can find beauty/color even on the dreariest of days not just the sunny ones.