blue and grey

I have finally finished the knitting project that I have been working on for the last month and a half.  It's beautiful.  Now to block it.  Finished pictures tomorrow, Lord willing.

a tea

~for Mama's birthday~

Greta colored an owl for her;

Olivia made a lovely tea, with apple-cinnamon scones

and a poetic collage picture, like she does;

the four of us siblings got her a copy of a book of family photographs.

 Lovely.

Will got his braces off!

Centerpiece

 

Greta and I have been reading together from Little House in the Big Woods, so we put a kerosene lamp on our table just like Laura had.  The leaves are from my climbing rose: white, yellow, pink and green.  Colored pencils--so much easier to keep in the lines than crayons, even for little people.

My best buddies

The three of us, bundled up for a chilly walk to Mimi's house

garden harvest

  

 

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Dahlias

 These are special dahlias.  Greta and I picked out the bulbs in the middle of last winter and dreamed of planting them for the months until spring came.  Greta would tell me, "When spring comes then we can plant the flowers!" Spring did come and we had a little bulb planting ceremony one afternoon when Mimi was over for tea.  And here they are, now full-grown and blooming their gorgeous blooms. 

  

 

Coloring

I found the sweetest coloring pages for Greta this morning.  Alphabet pages with baby chicks and bird nests and jam to color in, number pages with mittens and socks to color in and count, a whole set of farm animal pictures.  Enough to fill many mornings with purposeful coloring!

:: Alphabet Coloring
:: Learning Colors
:: Learning Numbers
:: Farm Friends

(There are many others too, so browse
the site a bit if you like these.)

Sunshine and a nap at Mimi's

We're drinking in these last warm, sunny days, and Mama's balcony is the perfect place to do that.

(me and my boy)

Cozied into Mimi's pillows

Time in the sun with sister, her with her sailing story and me with my knitting

Their rowan tree with the beautiful orange berries

Yoshi-the-Pooh, awake and rather sunshiney himself