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happy blackberry pie

made by Tim's mom
Deee-licious!

how the week started

The Best Medicine

Tim's first time out sledding in many years - Taking our nephews out on the golf course behind our house, on a popular sledding hill with a few moguls already established!



"I don't think you kids want to take that route..."

sidewalk decorations that greeted us, leading to the entry for Monday night yoga:




hard to see on my crummy cell phone pics: the last picture shows "Hi!" right in front of the door :)

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Beautiful - this really moves me

I was mowing the lawn when it started to rain lightly (while still sunny) - I rounded a corner to see stunning double rainbows!

image below generated by the Photosynth app on my phone - distorted and washed out, but captures the entire rainbow (shadow in the foreground is from our house)

Friday happy list

Some weeks it's easier and other weeks it's more challenging to come up with a "happy list" - but then that's the reason for this exercise!

1. discovering - or rather I should say being reminded - that the world is full of lovely and amazing people everywhere - you just have to start talking to them, duh!
2. starting "Assignment #2" in my painting class
3. sipping Starbucks French Roast with almond macaroons & lemon cookies from Casa Italiana (they have the best Italian cookies ever)
4. my new red polka-dot sweater!!!
5. the scent of our autumn yard: damp, musky crushed walnut husks
the sound of our autumn yard: walnuts continually falling with loud thunks
the site of our autumn yard: walnut leaves riding breezes to fill the sky and ground with fluttering, shimmering, glowing yellow

Walnuts! Walnuts! Walnuts! (they're everywhere, might as well love 'em!)

Full disclosure: jumping for joy because I got back good news from the doctor: I'm gonna live! ha ha :D

jack-o-lanterns at a friend's house

Doesn't Mr. Walnut Face (in the driveway) look like the Man in the Moon?

the happy lily-pad

I call him "Greengo" (sí, porque he looks to be wearing a floppy sombrero ;)