fragile beauty.

 Sweet blooms, found here.  

My folks have a beautiful crab apple tree... and I managed to snap some shots the other day while it was showing off.  You may also recognise Azriels' shirt from today's earlier tutorial. 

Like most flowering trees at this season.. they come out in splendour, saturate the air with their sweetness, and fill the blue sky with delicate petals.  Only days later however, those petals now cover the ground.  How fleeting its moment in bloom.

This reminds me to be grateful once again.  To hold those delicate, precious moments of beauty each day, and savour their sweetness.

We could have wallowed in discouragement today.. as my husband had his dream of a summer career slip through his [injured] fingers.  Sometimes pity parties seem like such an inviting scene.  I want wear an Eeyore party hat and sit on a dung hill... and mope.  But it's a pretty nasty.stinky.hopeless place to stay in.

So we found some beauty to fill this day.  Sweet moments at the cafe by the lake.  Grabbing some new blooms to put into our front garden.  Being grateful for more moments together now that my husband won't be working as much.

Yes, we even got some Gerber daisies - one of my favorites.  So the fleeting beauty of flowers reminds me once again to hold onto the good, even when it grows up out of life's 'fertilizer'.

 "For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away" James 4: 14

 Savouring the sweetness in the midst of some sorrows,

Mel :o)

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slide show sunday.

stormy skies southward

Hello friends.  I never got a chance to give you a quick 'slide show' from our family reunion - Mother's day weekend in Cobourg last week.... so here's a few gems from a fun filled couple of days away!

enjoying our lake-side view from The Breakers B&B

beach babe & SAND-whiches!

 

First beach experience this year... she's hooked.

daddy & daughter... and their digits.

sunshine & stripey stockings

j'adoor a good door.

strollers & strolling

blue skies & blue eyes

four-eyes & furry face

my sis's chee-wa-wa... Bambi.

No, we didn't end up in Mexico after... this is my big sis's lil' doggie.  We had a great time visiting with my side of the family on our return home from the 'burg.

Anywho, exciting times around here - our good friends are about to have their baby!

We're looking forward to a fresh new neighbour.playmate.friend here soon.

Have a great day!

Mel :o)

a house. a mouse. a clock.

Azriel and her Great Granny enjoy a read.

 Well it was 'family night Saturday' again.  Four generations squeezed in around a feast table of yummy food.  This time under a canopy of balloons to celebrate a couple birthdays in the crowd (my sis-in-law... and me - soon!).  One of my favorite parts of this evening is the chance to look out over Jackson park from my parent-in-laws kitchen window.  The rain had illuminated all the fresh bursting buds of green throughout the forest... and the air hung sweet and glowing around us.  I have always loved growing up around Jackson park.  I miss it so much now that we live in the south end.  Someday - if they don't continue to pave over it all - I will build a tree fort and live there. ;o)

Azriel and her Grandad enjoy that little piggie going 'wee wee wee' all the way home!

 Another favorite part of these Saturdays is witnessing the feast of love for our daughter.  For only a few more months she is the first.only grandchild.great grandchild to this family!  Translated: everyone stares transfixed at her for most of the evening - I call her the 'campfire' that we all gaze at in a love stupor.  Now, I don't want her to think the world revolves around her of course.. but for now, it's a sweet moment to witness the joy she brings to each 'nut' in her family tree.  We are also very eager for the soon coming cousin (August)!  Especially since they live in the same 'duplex' home as us!  Yeah babies!

Grandfather clock and Grandaughter.

The final favourite moment of these nights is what has now become a weekly tradition.  Azi and her Grandad wind up the antique Grandfather clock together.  This clock is a beauty.. in fact the joke is that my Pa-in-law would save it before his wife in a house fire.  I'm just amazed that its ancient and yet still runs perfectly due to weights that slowly let down over the week's time.  Then, true to form, Azi and Grandad wind it back up for another week.

I brought over the lil' cast iron mouse that now perches under the "6" on the clock... so they can act out the rhyme now too.  Such a sweet moment to savour.

Hoping you found a sweet spot in your saturday evening.

Did you snuggle in and listen to the rain?

Nite nite,

Mel :o)