Pastries by Ella

Star of Bethlehem

One petal open

Time flies

This is the picture that has been our desktop background for the past week; I wanted to share the JOY! Joshua at 18 months!

Night Time Magic

Ella and I just watched an amazing firework display right from our bedroom window. Magical as can be!

Mourning dove with chick

Nesting on an old pair of work gloves on a tool shelf.

Newly Hatched

Why I love the Olive Tree

Check out all this loot!
1 fantastic cement mixer (which you can really mix water and mud in and have it pour out the chute)
2 packages of unopened GLIDE floss!
1 Music Maestro game by Aristoplay
1 Coloraddo game
All for a grand total of $.79!!!!
That's right seventy nine cents. At a little thrift store in Crozet. And look, from that little trip I have already learned about a racket, a Renaissance wind instrument!

Watch this racket in action:

(30 seconds only)

Youtube has videos of krumhorns too.
I think I now know where that expression comes from "what a racket!"

Touched

Yesterday morning I took a brisk walk down to our neighbor's mailbox to photograph their exquisite white and yellow irises. It was drizzly and I didn't want my camera to get wet, so I got a quick shot and turned around for home. Later that afternoon, I found one of the irises, with the bulb carefully dug out, on the hood of our car. Pure, sweet kindness; a bit of thoughtful cheeriness for the heart. We now have a yellow iris near our mailbox reminding me to share joy, sow love, and cultivate a world of kindness.

a day of fun.

mommy took these.

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