High Five Friday for Photographers

We saw some caribou on our drive back to Anchorage in April and as you can see it takes a sharp eye to see these guys grazing on winter lichens.

High five Friday for budding photographers who just happen to be our oldest son. It seems to run in the family. Good show kid! We love your talents and your smiling face.

Bathroom Remodel Completed

The finishing touches have been completed to the guest bathroom remodel project. Door handles and pulls, the shelves have been installed, and the clock is hung in place. You should know that the glass shelves were part to the old medicine cabinet, I saved them for the finishing touch. Plus another photo of the stones around the light switches and outlets ~ because I think they look so AWESOME!

Go team completion!  

Remembering You

We remember you! 

We thank you for your service and sacrifice.
Your bravery shines through the darkness.

We honor those that have died in the line of duty for our country!

THANK YOU!

Orchid Days ~ Then There Were Nine

Orchid days are a success as all nine of the buds have come into full bloom. What a great way to celebrate a high five Friday and start the long weekend.

Share the love!  

Share the joy! 

And have a safe weekend!

An Inland Voyage

"The canoe was like a leaf in the current. It took it up and shook it, and carried it masterfully away, like a Centaur carrying off a nymph. To keep some command on our direction required hard and diligent plying of the paddle. The river was in such a hurry for the sea! Every drop of water ran in a panic, like as many people in a frightened crowd. But what crowd was ever so numerous, or so single-minded? All the objects of sight went by at a dance measure; the eyesight raced with the racing river; the exigencies of every moment kept the pegs screwed so tight, that our being quivered like a well-tuned instrument; and the blood shook off its lethargy, and trotted through all the highways and byways of the veins and arteries, and in and out of the heart, as if circulation were but a holiday journey, and not the daily moil of threescore years and ten. The reeds might nod their heads in warning, and with tremulous gestures tell how the river was as cruel as it was strong and cold, and how death lurked in the eddy underneath the willows. But the reeds had to stand where they were; and those who stand still are always timid advisers. As for us, we could have shouted aloud. If this lively and beautiful river were, indeed, a thing of death’s contrivance, the old ashen rogue had famously outwitted himself with us. I was living three to the minute. I was scoring points against him every stroke of my paddle, every turn of the stream. I have rarely had better profit of my life.

For I think we may look upon our little private war with death somewhat in this light. If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves. And above all, where instead of simply spending, he makes a profitable investment for some of his money, when it will be out of risk of loss. So every bit of brisk living, and above all when it is healthful, is just so much gained upon the wholesale filcher, death. We shall have the less in our pockets, the more in our stomach, when he cries stand and deliver. A swift stream is a favourite artifice of his, and one that brings him in a comfortable thing per annum; but when he and I come to settle our accounts, I shall whistle in his face for these hours upon the upper Oise."

An Inland Voyage - The Oise in Flood
Robert Louis Stevenson

Circumzenithal Arc

In your wanderings around the globe or even in your neighborhood remember to look up, as the sky holds treasures that can spark the imagination. 

In  April I was able to take my first photograph of a Circumzenithal Arc.  There is a Sun Dog at the bottom right of the photo and the Circumzenithal Arc is top middle of this photo.

Happy Monday my friends!  What do you see when you look up?

High Five Friday for Family

High five Friday for family and love!

Share the love! Always! Often!

P.S. these photos were taken the first part of April, the snow is now melted and green grass is growing all around. It took me forever to get them off my camera.

Purpose & Conviction

Keep broadening your horizons, and keep seeking enlightenment and knowledge. Listen with open ears to the stories others tell, and read the world news with an open mind and kind heart. We can learn plenty from people on the other side of the globe, and from those right next door.

Our purpose and conviction, as with time, is a changing target, a changing goal.

Love with a compassionate heart, in doing so I believe that you can find your purpose and passion for your convictions.

Orchid Days ~ Then There Were Seven

Plus the beautiful blooms of my African Violets,

one of which has gone crazy!

Happy Tuesday! May there be joy in your hearts all day long!

Happy Mothers Day

Raising children is the best job you will ever have, hands down the best!

Happy Mothers Day!

The Better Angels ~ Movie Worth Watching

Photo from the world wide web.

The Better Angels a movie worth watching... twice!

Oh Happy Day for a Walk

Today I am grateful for the beautiful browns of an extended spring.

Today I am thankful for the sunshine that warms my face and melts away the last of winters chill.

Today I am comforted by the generous love of a kind fella who holds my hand every chance he can.

Today I enjoy the sight of last years blooms, still lovely after their winters nap.

Today I celebrate love!

Flooring Project

New flooring in the new house required us to install a new subfloor, SurePly premium underlayment by Patriot Timber Products, so that the Allure TrafficMASTER Resilient Vinyl Plank Flooring would have a solid resting place once it was installed.  

Sawcut Colorado is the name of the color and style we have chosen and boy this stuff is as advertised, the easiest floor to install.

Both products are manufactured with quality and we would recommend them both to friends. We love this new flooring. Go team remodel!

High Five Friday ~ for Smiling Faces!

High five Friday for smiling faces, love and sharing time with your family!  

Also happy May Day! May all the May flowers be blooming in your life.