Yesterday was our two year wedding anniversary. Two years ago we pledged our hearts and futures to each other in my mother's beautiful garden, standing around this pond:

Along with my bouquet, I carried the pocket watch my mother gave my father years ago. During the ceremony it rained, making me laugh instead of cry. We spent the rest of the evening with our closest friends and family, sitting in the garden, eating and chatting. Once the evening was over, I changed out of my white satin pumps into my Doc's, and, with me in still in my wedding dress, a small group of us gathered in a pub for a last toast before we headed off to the hotel.

The last two years have passed so quickly. It's been hard sometimes, and wonderful most of the time. It's with hope and love that I move into this new year.

Sudden Light

I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

You have been mine before,--
How long ago I may not know:
But just when at that swallow's soar
Your neck turn'd so,
Some veil did fall,--I knew it all of yore.

Has this been thus before?
And shall not thus time's eddying flight
Still with our lives our love restore
In death's despite,
And day and night yield one delight once more?

-Dante Gabriel Rosetti