Animals
- Moments From Summer's End
Although the season has yet to change...which is quite evident with the current heat wave in which we seem to be stuck...summer is over. Community pools are closed, school is in session...and around the farm summer's frenzy is slowing down. Apples...
- Self-expression
A Saturday night thunderstorm ushered in cooler temps and clear skies. Fall has arrived! This weekend I finally had the opportunity to hang fairy lights on the gazebo... and the swing. They are all solar lights...so no use of outside power!Now,...
- Harvest Time
I remain in disbelief of the incredible stretch of temperate weather we are experiencing!Every day is just as beautiful as the one before and the one after. It's as if Pennsylvania has become the new San Diego. Although I know it is just a temporary...
- An Exercise....
Consider, for a moment, these tall grassy fronds blowing in the Autumn breeze... Look at the way the sunlight plays with each frond...turning it into spun platinum,with sparkling light and shadows against the clear blue sky.Imagine being asked to paint...
- A Moment
How many of us go about our tasks each day deep in thought and not truly aware of what is around us? We spend so much time in our own thoughts and not truly engaged in the world. And then at the end of the day, we don't remember much of anything striking...
Animals
When Everything Is Right With The World....
Perhaps it's because of the stretch of absolutely fabulous days....
where the sun shines brightly, but the air is soft and light and cool...
where billowy white clouds float on a crystal clear sea of blue...
where bees buzz happily from blossom to blossom....
the air filled with the wonderful aroma of basil!
Perhaps it's all of the above...
the beauty and splendor of the season, and me with enough time to really take notice
and enjoy it.
Or maybe it's because of this little pink fairy princess's arrival.
(And today she went home from the hospital with her Mommy and Daddy...
who love her to the moon and back again!)
Whatever it is, I have to tell you...
the world has never looked better.
So full of magic and possibility.
(Maybe the pink fairy princess has put a spell on me!)
(Maybe the pink fairy princess has put a spell on me!)
I am reaching out and grabbing the best of each day and holding it close to me...
as if tomorrow it might be gone.
And then tomorrow when I awaken to another sun-drenched, blue-skied day...
I will grab ahold and squeeze each precious moment from it.
There is nothing like a new living soul to fill you with promise
and remind you just how precious each and every moment of each and every day is!
There is much in this world that is less than perfect,
but I choose not to see it.
Not today.
Today I choose to savor each and every second...
drinking in the sights and sounds and smells of life...
promising myself that anything is possible.
I know this to be true,
for if it is possible for two people to create something so perfect as this...
then anything is possible!
I must tell you...
that counter full of tomatoes is gone!
Processed.
Canned and frozen.
By this weekend, however, I will have that many tomatoes back on the counter again!
I also made another batch of hot pepper relish.
This batch should be pretty hot, as the habańero peppers were ripe this time.
Next batch will also have ghost peppers in it!
Hotter than hot!!
And just like that another weekend is upon us.
Make it a terrific one...whatever you do!
I'll tell you about mine on Monday... if you tell me about yours, too.
- Moments From Summer's End
Although the season has yet to change...which is quite evident with the current heat wave in which we seem to be stuck...summer is over. Community pools are closed, school is in session...and around the farm summer's frenzy is slowing down. Apples...
- Self-expression
A Saturday night thunderstorm ushered in cooler temps and clear skies. Fall has arrived! This weekend I finally had the opportunity to hang fairy lights on the gazebo... and the swing. They are all solar lights...so no use of outside power!Now,...
- Harvest Time
I remain in disbelief of the incredible stretch of temperate weather we are experiencing!Every day is just as beautiful as the one before and the one after. It's as if Pennsylvania has become the new San Diego. Although I know it is just a temporary...
- An Exercise....
Consider, for a moment, these tall grassy fronds blowing in the Autumn breeze... Look at the way the sunlight plays with each frond...turning it into spun platinum,with sparkling light and shadows against the clear blue sky.Imagine being asked to paint...
- A Moment
How many of us go about our tasks each day deep in thought and not truly aware of what is around us? We spend so much time in our own thoughts and not truly engaged in the world. And then at the end of the day, we don't remember much of anything striking...