The secret of your own heart you can never know;
but you can know Him who knows its secret.
-George MacDonald

Monday, April 26, 2010

Going to Market


What a blessing to have a farmer's market nearby...and we visit...often. Its so much fun to talk to the growers...all ages young and older...you can learn much wisdom.

Spring, summer, and fall...many shades of one color...so many choices...

We buy starter vegetable plants for our garden...multiple varieties of peppers and tomatoes...in the summer there will be fresh fruit and vegetables to purchase and eat...yum.

Vibrant African Daisies...

Colorful hanging baskets of petunias...vegetable plants and herbs...

Beautiful Dahlias...
Looking forward to the whole growing season...

Sunday, April 18, 2010

may my heart always be open to little birds...


may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old
e.e. cummings

Monday, April 12, 2010

Blue Skies


The blue of this sky
Sounds so loud that it can be heard
Only with our eyes.
-Richard Wright

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Pausing To Remember



Keeping the lights on...thinking of the coal miners and their families in Raleigh County, West Virginia. May God bless you all...

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The Earth is smiling...in FLOWERS.


There are blossoms everywhere...

love this time of year... beautiful color on all the trees...looks like Fairyland...
just had to "gussy up" the house with their beauty...

I cut some branches that needed a little trim...cut slits in the end of the branch...





emersed in a pretty glass container...and those lovely blossoms are smiling in every room of the house.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Pretty Easter Packaging


First, you take THESE...


so you can make THIS...


use re-purposed paper to wrap...then tag IT...


repeat...make THESE...

Remembering why this Friday is good. Blessings, Carolanne

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Turn Around And Its Spring


I looked outside this morning and realized that spring was in FULL BLOOM. How did it happen? Just 2 weeks ago, we had snow and frigid temperatures. Without any kind of announcement, buds were on all the trees. Flowers were blooming...birds were singing. I smelled...green grass.

Raising your children can be like this also. Thinking back, when I was very young... I remember the song, "Turn Around" by Harry Belafonte. "Turn around and you're two...turn around and you're four...you're not a little girl anymore...you're going out the door..." The song reminisces about how time seems to pass so quickly when it comes to your children becoming adults. Once your precious little ones were wanting stories at bedtime and then, very quickly it seems, they are wanting to stay out way past bedtime. They are headed for college... or driving on their own...Where did the time go?

It seems to have passed so quickly when you think back. When they couldn't sleep through the night without crying or needed someone to cut up their food...it felt like those stages would last forever. Then suddenly, your sons and daughters are out the door...COOKING their own food. You wonder...how did the time move so quickly?

You don't just get this feeling with your own little ones but with your friends' little ones as well. A few weeks ago, we received a wedding invitation. This "lttle" girl was getting married. It seemed like I had just gone to her ballet recital. I had just played games with her while I kept the nursery at church. Now she is a registered nurse taking care of little ones...her own little patients...and getting married.

Time...seasons...life...moves on. Sometimes quickly. "I turned around and you were gone."