back to school...

The first week of school is almost over. Everything went smoothly. One was happy to go back, the other three would never admit such a thing. I was a bit sad at first, it's always sad to see summer end. But the hours of undisrupted quiet are so...lovely. So here I am, reveling in the peace and creating away to my heart's content. I really love my life...

change...

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies...

miracles...

From one of my favorite books ever...Charlotte's Web..."Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it. But for that matter I don't understand how a spider learned to spin a web in the first place. When the words appeared, everyone said they were a miracle. But nobody pointed out that the web itself is a miracle."

how to make your mom cry...

...I love you too...

small creations...

small creations...stolen moments out of a busy day...because that's all I have time for right now...

nature's small gifts...

...a magical door leading to the fairy realm; a soft, pale moth's wing; a papery bee's nest with it's mysterious nooks; a glittering, irridescent dragonfly wing; a tiny, tiny perfectly formed pink sea shell...these are nature's gifts to us...bits of hope in our wide, wide world...

happy birthday Cassidy...

Where, oh where, did the last fifteen years go? They slipped by almost as fast as the sand in this tiny hourglass. Wishing a happy birthday to our dear, sweet Cassidy who turns fifteen today!

breathtakingly beautiful...

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it's always our self we find in the sea.

-e.e. cummings-