365 Project Day 314: The Green Boots

Canon 5D Mark ll, 50 1.2 L, 2.0 aperture, 1/400 shutter, 100 ISO

I found these waiting for me at the end of a wonderful birthday this week. The green boots. I had been eyeing them in the window of our local Charming Charlie store that we pass when we go to dinner or a movie. I remember passing by them once or twice while Chris and I were on one of our dates and thinking how I loved their cheerfulness. They were just sitting there in the window, beaming sunshine, a not-so-easy task for a rain boot. I may have remarked that I liked them. It is typical of me to ooh and ahh out loud.  At any rate, my sweet husband walked himself right into that store and bought them for me for my birthday. He remembered. He said in that one gesture, ” I see you, I hear you, and I value you.” That does a lot for a birthday girl’s heart.

Best of all, he left a note about something else he remembered. Something from the season when we were falling in love, when we walked and shared hearts in the rain.

He wrote the line. You know, the line that nearly stopped my heart all those years ago when I was wearing those red skippies of mine? ( You can read our love story here.)

Rain still looks good on you.

 

I love my Carolina boy. Gonna keep him. How will I do without him when I splash in the puddles of England next week?

I do not know.