I Love Words

I Love Words

I especially love well crafted sentences and paragraphs. But words in general will do. Through Blogs of Photographers I found this way cool on-line application called Wordle, "a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide". You can input any text or even input a blog address or ...

Summer day crafts

Summer day crafts

The kids hijacked my plans for the day. That's a reality of child-led learning. You go with try to go with the flow.

Incredible Edible Nasturtiums

Incredible Edible Nasturtiums

If you are interested in growing something in your yard, balcony or windowsill but don't have a lot of time, space, or money for plants - I've got the plant for you.

A better to-do list

A better to-do list

Today's Raspberries: A photo that is somewhat but not necessarily related to the following post. This morning during my sporadic (some days I'm disciplined, most days I'm not) quiet time I wrote. Mostly prayers of the "please guide me" variety. My last scribbles of the morning were: simplify be content ...

Today I choose to embrace

Today I choose to embrace

scrubbing the bathroom and kitchen floor, having clean kitchen counters (hoping to avoid the dreaded after supper build-up that makes me a cranky best-friend and mama) and de-cluttering my son's room. It's difficult to embrace these homemaking tasks in the midst of summer. The garden calls my name... The kids ...

Mountain trail filigree
Tumbledown West via Loop Trail

Tumbledown West via Loop Trail

Keeping this simple (trying to enjoy my good life), no hike synopsis, except to say it was many times better than last weekend's hike. I really enjoyed the day, even enjoyed the physical exertion, and time spent with my family. Blackberry Blossoms? Tumbledown West Peak: At this point we were ...