Lupine in May

Enjoy a beautiful weekend!

xo

Silent Spring

If you logged on to "Google" today,

you would have seen a tribute.

Today is the anniversary of the birthday

of Rachel Louise Carson.

As an environmentalist, she documented 

the detrimental effects of commercial pesticides

on the environment; particularly birds, as early as 1940.

In 1950 she turned her attention to conservation, and the 

problems caused by synthetic pesticides.

Her book  Silent Spring  led to a nationwide ban on DDT,

and inspired an environmental movement that led to the creation 

of the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Her efforts allow me the pleasure of

 observing the Bluebirds that 

visit the little house every Spring.

They are simply spectacular!

Birthday Love to her!

xo

Wild and Free

Traveling through the local neighborhoods

I've marveled at the beauty 

that only 

A wild Dogwood 

shares. 

xo

Spring

It always amazes me.

Deep within the forests and woodlands

during the deep, cold Winter months that have just passed,

there is an  abundance of color and fragrance

just waiting to burst and surprise us.

How I Love May!

xo

Flower Bed

Literally!

xo

Mother's Day

Being a Mom

is life's greatest gift.

Happy Mother's Day!

xo

My Lucky Day

Yay!
I'm in Milwaukee!

Enjoying a Mother's Day weekend

with my little rolling stone.

The flowers are starting to bloom, 

Lake Michigan is ice free,

the new bicycle is all tuned up,

 the city is calling!

TGIF! 

With love and hugs.

Lucky 7

Anyone lucky enough 

to be born 

on this date, 

in such a beautiful month,

must be one

extraordinary soul.

Happy Birthday, Rich Fieldhouse!

xo

Shadows

"We are shaped by our thoughts;

we become what we think.

When the mind is pure,

joy follows like a shadow 

that never leaves."

~Buddha

xo

Cinco de Pinko

Just feeling giddy.

Happy Monday!

xo

May Day, 1976

This is where it all became official.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Powers.

Love is all you need.

xo

To Tim

It's funny how the waves keep rolling,

The tides keep changing, 

The sun always rises and sets. 

Spring trails Winter.

Daybreak never fails.

New moons develop,

without falter.

28 years ago on this date,

A Love was born that will never die.

It grows stronger with each passing sunset.

I am so proud to be your Mom.

Happy Birthday, Tim.

With love and hugs.

xo

The Happiness Challenge

Nobody Cares That You're Miserable, You Might As Well Be Happy

"It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they really are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny, load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across the ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of  muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill. Stories, like people and butterflies and songbird's eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they've been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some have outlasted the lands in which they were created."

~Neil Gaiman,  Fragile Things

xo

The Two Twenty-Thirds

 I have thousands of photos.

But.
Not even one
of
 my Mom and my Husband together.

Today I celebrate them!

The Birthday kids.

The "two twenty-thirds".

So, to both of you:

For your unconditional Love, thank you.

For your strength, I admire you.

For your courage, I respect you.
For your efforts and steadfastness,
I appreciate you.

For the fun that you bring to my life,

I am forever grateful.
For all of  the laughs, you should be on TV!
 I laugh every single day!
And,

For everyone that is blessed to know you,
and to Love you,

I am certain they see your beauty.
Your kindness.

Your gentle & funny ways.

Your Love.
Your stubbornness!!

Happy Birthday, Mom and
Happy Birthday, Wes.
"May you stay

forever young."
You will always be 25 years apart.
No matter what!!
 

With all of my Love,
For all of my life.
Happy Birthday!

xo

 

xo

Happy Earth Day!

xo

Thank You!

During these busy days of life

It's always a nice surprise

to open up the mailbox 

and see familiar handwriting! 

Thank you for the Easter cards,

the news,

and 

the Love! 

Happy Easter!

April Snow

If snow in April is our biggest problem, 

we are very lucky.

xo

Spring!

I think Mother Nature got the message.

Happy weekend!

xo

Patience

To master the virtue of Patience,

observe the Great Blue Heron.

xo

Spring

"For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land."

~Anon

Happy Monday!

xo

A Sense of Calm

"The story of our life

is written in white tulips

set in the Quiet garden,

in tomatoes ripening on the vine,

in puppies bouncing through

the great snowdrifts.

It is inscribed with the scent

of deep purple lilacs,

the satiny touch of eggplant,

the swift falling of golden leaves."

~Gladys Taber

Dedicated with Love to my Aunt Pat

xo

April

April is a  promise

that May is bound to keep.

xo

Genius

"Everyone is a genius,

but if you judge a fish

on it's ability 

to climb a tree,

it will live its whole life

believing that it is stupid."

~Albert Einstein

xo

Cape May Zoo Owl

Paper Flowers

Not an endangered species here,

and there is no fragrance.

No water required,

no sunlight,

no spritz.

This is a flower for your heart.

Handed with love from Quinn to Tiff.

xo

The Ladies

We don't have any more pets.

So to speak.

These gentle little creatures

that peek in our windows and doors

are looking rather content on this beautiful Spring morning.

And their bellies are full!

Happy Friday!

xo