A closer look II

Sunset, clouds & wires - Austin, TX - May 2007

Sewing Projects

All made using my new sewing machine, a birthday gift from my fabulous husband.

Knitting

Completed and on its way to Nicolas.

Here's to a wonderful weekend!!!

Evening sky - Austin, TX - May 2007

A closer look

University of Guelph campus - May 2006

I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice Walker

Harry Houdini once said:

If you can fool 90 percent of the audience, the 10 percent you didn't get will never be able to convince the other 90 percent that they didn't see what they saw.

Reflections after the rain

The summer of rain - Austin, TX - 23 July 2007

Enjoy the moments.

Magnolia & 64

Magnolia Blossom - Austin, TX - April 2007

Love these lyrics:

When I'm Sixty-Four

When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out 'till quarter to three, would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four?

Hmm------mmm---mmmh.
You'll be older, too. Aaah, and if you say the word, I could stay with you.

I could be handy, mending a fuse, when your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside, Sunday mornings, go for a ride.
Doing the garden, digging the weeds, who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty four?

Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight if it's not to dear.
We shall scrimp and save.
Ah, grandchildren on your knee, Vera, Chuck, and Dave.

Send me a postcard, drop me a line stating point of view.
Indicate precisely what you mean to say, yours sincerely wasting away.
Give me your answer, fill in a form, mine forever more.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty four?

by John Lennon/Paul McCartney

Beauty in the details

Bratislava, Slovakia - January 2007

A favourite of mine

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - a few years ago

Revisiting once travelled locals if not in body but spirit with the aid of a captured image, the experience can be relived. Our minds are such powerful vessels. Enjoy the journey!

Easson

We thought you might appreciate this recent photo Kim shared with us. What a bright-eyed little beauty Easson is and already 6 months old!

Cuties

Chris shared these terrific photos with us just the other day. They were taken while on holiday last month. The first is of Christine & William and the second is of Matthew sitting along side his big brother, William during the road trip. They are all such cuties!!!

Gorgeous Colour

Austin, Texas - End of May 2007

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Vitamin K

If interested, you will find information concerning Vitamin K, here, here and here. Now that one of us is taking blood thinners, our diet contains limited Vitamin K.

A hive of bees should be viewed, not as a single species, but as a triumvirate of related types, mutually exclusive in function but utterly and inextricably interdependent upon each other. A single bee separated from its sisters and brothers will die, even if given the ideal food and care. A single bee cannot survive apart from the hive.
Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, p. 165

Welcome to the world, Nadine!

Amy and Jason are the proud parents of a gorgeous baby girl, Nadine Giselle Marchildon. She arrived Sunday, July 8th at 1:15am, weighing 6lb 12oz. Amy ended up having to have a C section and so she and Nadine only arrived home yesterday. Both parents are very proud and so happy. Nadine is doing wonderfully well.

Beauty surrounds us

When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
~Cynthia Ozick

Grateful

• Having S. in my life.
• The love that S. & I share.
• Celebrating our 5 year wedding anniversary.
• The doctors discovering & treating the Pulmonary Emboli before irreparable damage occurred.
• S. coming home from the hospital.
• S. being on the mend.
• The love and support of our loved ones.
• Competent doctors, nurses & health care staff.
• Availability of health care.
• Health insurance.

Happy Birthday Alexa!!!!

Wishing you an absolutely smashing birthday celebration!!!!

Kim shared this photo with us, it was taken during an Ultimate Tournament this year.

The rain keeps falling

Happy Independence Day, to all our American friends & family!

Independent Food

Please enjoy the following excerpt from a weekly newsletter received via email from Boggy Creek Farm, a local organic farm here in Austin. I certainly appreciate the sentiment, for it is one that is universal and each of us should consider regardless of citizenship or residency.
Enjoy the journey!!

July 2, 2007
Independent Food

Greetings Friends of the Farm,

...How will we be truly nourished as a nation if our people are wolfing down contaminated, dead slop from other countries in the name of globalization? In the name of cheap food? Produced not by a neighbor, but by folks making slave wages, far away, out of sight. Brought to us on petro-fueled ships. Sold by impersonal corporations. Food that we should fear ingesting. Food without accountability.

Independent food -- food with a "face" behind it -- is local food. Much of our produce travels no more than two-hundred feet from plant to market table, on the energy of our feet. True, produce from our farm in Gause travels seventy-five miles from field to farm stand. But at least it travels in a Ford truck, driven by the farmer, his helpers sitting at his side. Our workers make decent pay and are not hidden from your view.

So we'll celebrate July 4th for sure, and have a swell time with those who can break away from the beach to come for fresh red tomatoes and everything else needed to grow strong kids, keep old folks healthy, make bodies energetic and minds clear. Adequately nourished, so that we all can be grateful for the country we've created and strive to make it better, cleaner, kinder, safer -- akin to the image that dwells in our imaginations and in our hearts...

(c) Carol Ann Sayle

Happy Canada Day!!

Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada