It Was A Good Summer

It was a good summer...

Everyday I felt glad that we had a yard for us & the buns.

Strawberry Sweet

Just a day back in the summer when we went strawberry picking.

What's your favorite thing about picking your own strawberries???

I love the drive with my sweet honey, the tractor ride out to the fields and

finishing off a whole basket together on the ride back home to the buns.

Flower Spoiled

I am flower spoiled without a doubt. I appreciate it and I love love love it! I have a very sweet honey.

And almost every single flower that my honey gifts to me, I press in my homemade flower presses.

Grateful For Green

Are you like me where you just have days where your heart is flooded over with gratitude...

gratitude for green!  For fresh greens & beautiful kind healthy food and beautiful new plants!!??

Amazing-ness

So last year we splurged and we bought this huge incredible painting from local artist David Carlin...

whom some of you may also know was my high-school art teacher turned mentor turned dear friend.

Every time I pass it I feel humbled to have it in my home and I see something new & beautiful.

We had wanted one of Dave's large-scale originals for awhile

(we have quite a collection of his lino cuts prints going already) 

But we were waiting until one of them spoke loud & clear to BOTH of us...and this was the one.

If I have even an iota of his talent & artistic drive & spirit in me when I am in my 70's I'll be lucky!

& now if the house catches on fire I'll gather the bunnies, my honey, my hard-drives & this painting! 

A Favorite Paddle With Bald Eagles!

This is the lake by our house.  We launch our boats here on days that we want to stay close to town.

This day out kayaking was AMAZING because guess what!?

We actually saw TWO AMERICAN BALD EAGLES....holy #(#*!!!

We've never ever seen these kind of birds here, apparently they do come this far North now & than.

It amazes me how different each time out paddling can be.  All the beauty we see.

(check out that super cool orange lichen covered island...magic...and the water lilies...magic again!)

Unfortunately the water was quite choppy that day so we couldn't get super close or super clear photos of the two eagles but it is going down for sure as one of my favorite paddles ever.

It Was A Good Summer

Everything has been put away, wrapped up and covered for another long winter...

I've been looking forward to winter for awhile now so I have no complaints really.

My heart still hurts that Teela wasn't with us, I think it always will....But my life and our yard,
doesn't so much belong to us but to the bunnies and I know for sure that they had a great summer.

So Cozy

Routines are shifting.  This time of year we bring flowers from outside in to survive our cold nights...

We picked the last of the garden veg & we're spending more time inside with the buns...it's so cozy!

The Eclipse

Did you guys watch the eclipse???

Isn't it kinda crazy that there hasn't been one quite like that one for over 100 years!

Well I ended up having a wicked bad migraine that day so I wasn't up

for heading to our waterfront to use our local astronomy clubs public viewing set-up... 

but my honey did whip up two pin-hole camera boxes for us which did the trick,

so every 10 minutes or so I would run outside to watch.

I admit I was a little underwhelmed by the visuals,
mind you in our part of the world we only got 70% coverage
& at no point could we safely just look up.
What I loved though was that for those few hours, so many in the world were together
enjoying & concentrating on something magical instead of negative  

and I just felt lucky to be there in those moments, no matter how painful, with my hon seeing it all.

Sketching With Fruit & Bunnies

Just give days full of sketching time, bunnies to snuggle and fresh fruit

and I am one happy and content gal (even with a sore head!).

It's been a pretty rainy summer

but I honestly don't mind one bit really because it just means more of these favorite things!

Home

Home...(I am a huge homebody!)

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Gorgeousness & Waves

I get my butt to the beach as often as I can, sometimes it's daily, if my head cooperates enough...

besides the incredible beauty of it all...I also sit there and appreciate that gorgeous guy of mine XO

Suntastic Sunset

I am just beyond words that I get to have this kind of beauty in my everyday life.

This is the lake near our home, just a 10 minute walk away, there are plenty of public accesses.

 We keep our eyes peeled from wherever we may be and if it looks like it'll be a decent sunset

we head to the water (when my head allows).  My heart fills with gratitude for all this beauty!

Blue and White Heart and Soul

Nature never ever fails to inspire & amaze me...

 

...it truly does feed me, heart and soul.