It Happened Like This. I had it planned in my head and a little bit on my planner. I’d written “Pages and Project post” in black ink on my planner page on the column for Wednesday morning. I have a couple of books that are a bit overdue for review. Not really, except for […]
Ten “Coffee Date with a Friend” Ideas
A friend is someone who knows the song to your heart and can sing it back when you’ve forgotten the words. ~ unknown My sister and I, we text back and forth soon after I return from spending time with my family at Christmas. We find ourselves challenging each other to aim for a once-month-coffee-date […]
And It’s Colorado
Much of our life isn’t all that orderly or scheduled. In part, because that’s how farming goes. “It all depends on the weather.” Always choices involving what the weather does. You can’t put “Disk a field” on your calendar with plans to have at it, rain or shine. Just doesn’t work if it is […]
All About The Flowers
Wildwood flower ~ Exquisite beauty ~ Delicate blooms ~ Growing hardy ~ I snapped pictures and pictures of these blooming beauties. Such a beautiful part of the Colorado mountains. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2015
Wherein There Are Purdy Pictures Of The Mountains
We spent a few days in Colorado at the very end of July and right on into the beginning of August. I posted just a few pictures in this Monday post. We went to Ouray, Colorado. It is called Little Switzerland and it is beautiful. The town is nestled down among very tall, towering, […]
Thank-you, Hatteras
This photo and the words below it are what I posted on Instagram as we left Hatteras. We just had so much fun. That sums it up. I’ve had several people ask if we had a good trip and I’ve replied, “We did! It was just so much fun!” I typed out details I wanted to […]
Coming and Going to Hatteras
Just a few more for now! These are a few pictures of our between-here-and-there as we traveled from Kansas to North Carolina to destination, Hatteras!! We took a side tour through the Smokey Mountains, caught a bit of the Appalachian Trail, saw tunnels and cool Corvettes, plenty of pretty views, played games in the car, […]
In Which We Climb a Lighthouse
The Hatteras Light! I’ve climbed it twice. Eighteen years ago with my brand-new husband. This year, with my husband-of-eighteen-years and my two half-grown children and my sister and her husband and my three, getting-too-big-and-grown-up, nieces. Eighteen years ago, it was free to climb it and there was a volunteer at the top to talk […]
In Which We Meet the Atlantic
Kansas is a long ways from the Atlantic. But we’d packed and prepared and prayed and looked forward to departure with much anticipation and expectation. We’d flipped through honeymoon pictures and remembered and we mapquested and traced routes on a real map. We’d lined up pet-sitters and buttoned things at home up as best […]
Instapost {July No.1}
I sat down yesterday and I messed with pictures. I put this off at times, because it’s never a ten minute thing. It’s always a minimum of an hour. I just can’t start with pictures and be done quickly. I love my pictures. My dear man loves looking at our pictures. {When he gets […]
Blessed Be Thy Name Forever
I waded out into the surf and I gazed across the rolling waves. The salt air whispered softly and the waves rolled and broke, soaking into the shore, pulled swiftly back to be replaced by the next one rolling in. Majestic. Magnificent. I bent to swish my fingers through the foam and watch the water […]
And Then There Were Mermaids
{these lovely photos are credit to my incredible sister at Sew a Fine Seam} The creative possibilities are endless on a beach full of sand and shells and an ocean providing an endless water supply for sand that needs dampened slightly to form and mold. On Friday evening the girls sculpted and crafted […]
Treasured Up and Pondered ~ Dolphins and My Daughter
On Saturday morning, my daughter and I circle down the stairs and out the sliding door, past the pool, the white gate creaking on its hinges as we swing it open. My bag, hangs, heavy on my arm, because I filled it with my Bible study and two of the books I’ve been reading. A water […]
In Which We Wander On the Beach
In the early morning stillness and sunshine we wander on the beach. My daughter and my niece and I. We take pictures. And the girls get silly and my niece proclaims “I am a crab,” in a falsetto tone and we laugh and I snap pictures and remember all the times, my teenage friends and […]
We Visit Big Brutus
A few weeks ago we took a jaunt down to the southeast corner of the state and visited Big Brutus! If there’s one thing to say about Big Brutus, well, it’s “He’s BIG.” We visited Big Brutus in 2011. We had a load of lumber to pick up in Missouri and we spent the weekend in […]
Wherein We Visit the Statehouse
When we visited Matthew’s brother’s family a bit back, we took a daytrip and one of the things we did was visit the capitol building, or statehouse, as it is commonly referred to, in Topeka. We’d long talked of going and had mentioned it before to J&E, because they don’t live that far away from […]
Memoir Monday {No. 68}
Did you have a good week last week? I certainly hope so. I noticed these little pans in my cupboard a few weeks ago. They’d been tucked away and I’d forgotten them. We had three bananas that were getting too dark and overripe, so I flipped through my cookbooks and found my Banana Bread recipe […]
