Weekly Pleasures-April

Where do I start? Now that April has brought some spring weather I can finally, FINALLY begin tackling  a few much-awaited chores. The snow has come and gone and come and gone so many times and with the most snow in our area in over 30 years-we are just now seeing it melt away. There […]

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Welcome Back!

I am welcoming myself back to Bloggerland. After a 5 month hiatus, I am welcoming you here, and if you stuck around while I took my break then my most humble thanks. Sometimes our lives can get a bit overwhelming and something has to go. For me, it was this blog and house organizing. A […]

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Pumpkin Love

This is the season for the harvest, and though I do not have a garden of my own, I am drawn to harvest time as if in another life I was a pioneer, working hard on the land to make magic out of a few scattered seeds and some tilled soil. Perhaps it is in […]

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WordPress Photo Challenge

Ooh shiny! That was the challenge of this week, aimed to prompt us to think about what we cannot resist. I can think of many things that I am drawn to over and over but this time, I had to post this photo of white sand coral from the Caribbean. The first time I saw […]

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A Tea for all Times

Daily prompts for tea and satisfaction. Some of my earliest memories of visiting and sharing involve a cup of tea-always black, as the herbal varieties and certainly green tea was not yet available and so much a part of the current culture. My parents were largely coffee drinkers, and the pungent smell hanging loftily in […]

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Weekly Pleasures-July

Here again are some of my weekly pleasures. I encourage you to stop and think about all the small but nevertheless seemingly insignificant pleasures that cross your path this week. When you do so, you will likely find that your world is full of them… Quote-I found a great quote this week and have considered […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge-Collage

I got started on my Grateful Journal on January the first-a New Year’s resolution was to write in it every day for the entire year. I think I got to week 4 before I put it somewhere, and haven’t thought about it until today. That’s not to say that I haven’t been consciously grateful; I […]

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I am a Collection

We are all collections , the sum of our parts, our histories, bundled and packaged into one body. Inside my 56, I am the 5 year old blowing  dandelion seeds in the wind, learning to a ride bike on gravel roads, making mud pies on the farm. I am 10, scouring the bookmobile library for […]

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May Intentions

With a new month upon us, it’s time to quickly reflect and plan ahead. I have been reflecting of late on purpose. When you leave the working world, a new purpose must be sought out so that you feel productive, useful and all around happy. We always have the purpose of handling the logistics of […]

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I like to Mingle

I am once gain honoured to have some of my photography featured in a another magazine. If you have never picked up a copy of Mingle magazine ( available at Chapters in Canada, Barnes & Noble in the US) as well as at Michael’s, you are in for a beautiful treat! Mingle features unique gatherings […]

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