Monthly Archives: February 2012

February.

February has been productive. Full of little things that needed to get done- a little cleaning and baking and reading and working outside. Trimming hedges, cleaning up the yard on mild days, lots of pick-up soccer games in the back yard. Pulling bikes out of the basement and inviting neighbors over for a few minutes...

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Snow.

She let me convince her to go out in the snow and bring a colorful blanket. ‘Just for fun,’ I told her. She acquiesced, even though she maybe didn’t understand my idea of fun. We laughed. The cold made water leak from our eyes. Snowflakes landed on her eyelashes. It was too cold to wipe...

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Cute Nephew.

Happy weekend. Hope it’s lovely and relaxing and filled with things that make you grin. Or better yet, filled with people who make you grin- like this guy:

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Sometimes.

Sometimes I take the camera out for a certain reason and end up photographing something completely different. The light is warm and yellow, and hitting the backyard grapevines in such a soft way. Sometimes I’ll notice it when I’m at the kitchen sink, and I quickly rush to see if I can keep that feeling...

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Homemade Granola.

  On Saturday, I decided to make the house smell good with some homemade granola. It had been a long week, with sickness and weary parents & children- so a house filled with the smell of cinnamon and vanilla was a welcome reward. We all love granola, but it isn’t always that healthy; and since...

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