Full of Joy Friday | Mushroom Edition

Last week I mentioned that we have a ton of mushrooms this year. I've been taking pictures of them all week and am sharing them here today, plus a few other lovely bits from the yard -- including a freshly hatched monarch butterfly chrysalis. The humidity has finally moved out and the mourning doves sound... Continue Reading →

Full of Joy Friday | Week 28 in 2021

It's been a few weeks since I've written one of these posts, so I'm reconditioning my joy-spotting muscles and am here to share a few bits of happiness with you all. Strawflowers covered in pollinatorshydrangeas are so close!wide shot of the garden + This was our first week of second grade for Bryce (7 years... Continue Reading →

Full of Joy Friday | Week 25 in 2021

Each Friday I try to share a few joyful moments from the week. I'm a little short on time, so this post will be short on words and full of pictures from my flower gardens. But first: August has discovered the hummingbird feeder. This is where you'll find him for the foreseeable future. This is... Continue Reading →

A Sunday Poem | Mindful

I wasn't planning to be back with a poem today, but this one presented itself to me on Saturday and I couldn't resist! Mindful Every day I see or I hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. It is what I... Continue Reading →

Joyful Weekend

Oof - I didn't mean to take another week off from blogging. Yet here I am, bashfully reentering the blogosphere. For some reason, writing felt like an insurmountable task. I was bored with the blogging schedule I've been following for the last year and couldn't figure out how to break through the staleness, so today's... Continue Reading →

A Sunday Poem | Arrowhead

This week we learned about a mass grave site with the remains of at least 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, at a boarding school for Indigenous children. I was emailing a dear friend about this on Monday night, started reading a Mary Oliver collection when I crawled into bed shortly after,... Continue Reading →

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