Today's visit with Christi, Nathan and Grant...

Sean stayed home from school to sword fight with Grant. Always a good reason to ditch school!

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

C.S. Lewis

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting - - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing."

A rainbow I "caught" while watering the plants today...

It's Sweet Pea time!!! "Thank You" to Royce who brought me a bouquet from a roadside stand..! Love them!

"Sweet Peas, on tiptoe for a flight,
With wings of gentle flush, o'er delicate white."
- Keats

Don't mean to bore you with photos of my garden roses....

BUT I CAN'T HELP IT...THEY ARE SO PRETTY THIS TIME OF YEAR!

Sean and I made little clay figures today...

...A pig, a bird, a snowman and a basket of apples. It was all in a day's work!

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning,
a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking
at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not
what.

- The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

My favorite "Irish Cream" rose...

and my next favorite climbing red roses.....

Caleen...this one is for you....

"That is one good thing about this world. . .there are always sure to be more springs."
- Anne Of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery

"When you follow your bliss, doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else."

-- Joseph Campbell

Leslie's Anatomy Class Assignment...

What could be yummier than a Kidney Tubule made from a giant 12 inch chocolate chip cookie and covered with rice krispie treat "cells"?.....mmmmm! That had to make for a fun buffet after the teacher gave each student their grade and let them share their creations.....ugh. Leslie worked hard though and got an "A". And I must admit it's the nicest kidney tubule I've ever seen.

Awww...such a cute Li'l Slugger....

Sean in mid-air out in Right Field....

Sean taking a swig of Gatoraid...

I do believe this is the only reason he likes the idea of playing baseball...he hates the pants, he hates to get hot, he hates to run...but he loooooves Gatoraid.

Happy Easter...

Twenty drops makes the perfect blue...

Sean...eager to begin the whole Easter Egg Decorating Process...

The color that eggs SHOULD be....

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.