Sunday Still Life is an attempt to capture the beauty and the depth of busy days in a slow and simple way. If you feel inspired, join Erin, here. Keep it slow. Keep it simple.
She pads into the kitchen at the sound of the radio playing a sweet slow song. Her arms lift up as she looks at me expectantly. I gladly pick her up and we sway for a few beats until I hear the sound of her soft snores in my ear.
1. a freezer full of pesto and berries
2. grown-up birthday parties
3. yardwork with your Love
4. the smell of your hands after deadheading the herb garden
5. a soccer net sort of put together
6. little arms reaching up for a quick dance
7. stister panda bears
8. the feeling of being clean after a long afternoon of yardwork
9. the meditative rhythm of mowing
10. kefir & cups of O’s with Saturday morning cartoons
11. staying calm where previous explosions have occured
12. waking to early morning ponderings
13. basil flowers
14. removing those basil flowers
15. the capacity to tend
16. finding early morning computer wanderings boring and breakfast with Zuzu important
17. pretty much every thing in the Trader Joes frozen food section
18. breakfast catch entertaining the 2 year old
19. rain
20. keeping company with the characters in books
21. Wino Wednesday with buddies
Pleasure is spread through the earth in stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. ~ William Wordsworth
Much like most everything else in our home, postcards hold sentimental value as well. We’re tickled to see them arrive in our mailbox and they typically hold a place of honor on our fridge until they migrate to a file folder, scrapbook, toybox or become a bookmark.When a large section of your friends and family are far and wide away it warms your heart to know that your dears thought of you when they were on their adventures and wanted you to know!
Corner view is a weekly Wednesday date hosted originally hosted by Jane, currently by Francesca. A topic is given and you can see impressions; be it in photographic or poetic in form from around the world: Jane, Dana, Bonny, Joyce, Ian, Francesca, Theresa, Cate, Kasia, Otli, Trinsch, Isabelle, Janis, Kari, jgy, Lise, Dorte, McGillicutty, Sunnymama, Ibb, Kelleyn, Ninja, Sky, RosaMaria, Juniper, Valerie, Sammi, Cole, Don, WanderChow, FlowTops, Tania, Tzivia, Kristin, Laura, Guusje, Susanna, Juana, Elsa, Nadine
Abelia x grandiflora
While there are many to choose from in our little town, this one has been our favorite from the very beginning. Not just because it is the closest to us, but because it offers the most shade, swinging, climbing and sliding options and the softest landing when you are, say; learning to swing, climb and slide. City folks know it as Ashley-Dearing, in our home it’s referred to as Alden Park, named for a sweet first friend of Zuzu’s we used to see there routinely. This last vist was particularly sweet because it was the first time the Quail was utterly mobile. Zuzu off and independent. Me just grinning, Lovey on his way with lunch. A perfect late morning for a little family.
Sunday Still Life is an attempt to capture the beauty and the depth of busy days in a slow and simple way. If you feel inspired, join Erin, here. Keep it slow. Keep it simple.
On the heals of the precious, joyfilled news that the Quail is not in need of open-heart surgery in the next year, I returned home from work to the news that Zuzu had thrown up at school. The gratitude I feel for a simple childhood illness that only needs cuddles,stuffed animals, a plastic bucket, cold sips of water and popcicles to heal is boundless. Bless their hearts. Both of them.
1. Heather joining in
2. how the air makes me feel when I’m cranky and go outside to cool off
3. watching a day lily’s life
4. the flow of salt, red wine, parsley and lemon over my grilled perfection of a plate
5. realizing the children will never know we split the left over triple chocolate cheesecake
6. the anniversary of the kiss
7. when asked to choose between blueberry and blackberry as the base of the new chess pie; noticing that Lovey put both in the cart
8. feeling light-hearted
9. a memory of a grilled meal in Florence
10. Dancing with The Quail to this song
11. Lovey topping it with this song
12. yardwork done together
13. the sisters splitting a peaches & pecan waffle with fresh whipped cream
14. Fried cheese grits with tomato gravy
15. Friends gathering at a baby friendly hour to celebrate the 4th!
16. Lovey’s rebaking of the pies
17. letting it go
18. NO HEART SURGERY FOR THE QUAIL!!!!!!!
19. a simple childhood run-of-the-mill virus
20. sips of cool water
21. The Quail’s charm as she rushes around the waiting room patting little old ladies on the knee in some sort of blessing to them.
Bed In Summer
Robert Louis Stevenson
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people’s feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
Ordinary Afters... 