Washing me Clean

Welcome to my new home!  The sparsely furnished apartment overlooks a lushly landscaped orchard.  At night the bats swoop thru the pawpaw trees eating up all the mosquitoes.  Honestly, I've only seen one skeeter so far.  And, during the day the geckos are at work patrolling the kitchen.  Crested hummingbirds in the morning, peepers at night and clumps of cumulus clouds powdering the Caribbean sky most of the time.  Spectacular and vibrant.  

                                                              

I've missed nature.  In Cambridge, months would go by without me even seeing the stars in the sky.  After breakfast at 75 miles per hour on route 93, I was lucky if I was able to catch the moon before my 6am start at the middle school. As I watch the palms playing with the gentle breeze, I can feel layers of stress vanishing, bit by bit, like the surf washing away layers of sand.