Monthly Archives: November 2012

contemplating

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She was helping me test my settings this morning but when I looked back at the pictures they showed her as she very often is these days, deep in thought, weighing the pro's and con's of different paths. There is a lot to think about at 18, lots of decisions to be made. Some big, some small in the grander scale of life.  Often we don't know until later which were which.  We pray, we step out with a mixture of trepidation and exultation.  

18 is like that.  

Actually, 45 is like that too. And probably all the other numbers too.

It's scary, life.  We just forge ahead, not always sure we are making all the right moves,  and somehow grace covers it all in the end. 

It's gonna be good.  I promise. : ) 

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The frequent heavy rains are stripping the trees of their autumn coats and it makes me a little sad that every time the sun peeks out again there are fewer leaves left clinging to the branches.  Every week the boys and their dad gather the strays from the courtyard and the little girls collect fat fistfuls for very fleeting bouquets. 

This is my bliss. : ) 

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Another sweet thing – Tess tried on one of the ponchos the big girls and I learned to make when I was on bedrest with Brendan all those years ago.  She loved it.  I love that she does. 

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to the ponies

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The girls and I knew without a doubt from the minute we read the sign mentioning the Dartmoor ponies grazing on the grounds that we were going to do all we could to find them.  In the end, that meant a lot of walking through field and forest, some of that carrying Abbie Rose piggy back. 

Finally the trail opened onto this rugged grassland, the prairie all red and bowing in the warm autumn wind. 

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  Allen was the first to see them and redirected us off the beaten path and over to the pony pasture. 

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It was worth every step.

thankful

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Thankful for what appeared at the back door this week, surplus from the recent 'lifting'. Have you any favorite ways to use leeks?  We are planning on a pot of potato soup but that will not use them all.  

The carrots are eaten like candy by the children so I doubt they will ever see the inside of a stock pot. : ) 

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“Eat leeks in March and wild garlic in May
And all year after physicians may play.”

– Welsh Proverb

Following the Light

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The days are getting shorter.  And shorter.  I know everyone says that as the year winds down, but the English sun is setting at four in the afternoon right now.  That's assuming we get a clear picture of it at all during the day.  So, this sunny Sunday morning was a treat for me. When I saw my neighbors riding by I ran for my camera.  They got a fair ways down the lane by the time I ran back upstairs, but I still wanted to share the view this fine day.  

 

Hope your day is bright! : )