this peace I give you

Getting ready for the Bike Parade to begin!

My heart was full this Independence Day as we celebrated – for the first time – at our lake cottage with “the littles” (and their bigs too.)

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charming gardeners

Can you find the hidden gardener???

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust
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pirate friend

Oldest friend I own.

When they are real, friendships are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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