Colbie Currently

Colbie's ultrasound this week compared to a week old squishy faced Nicholas

 

5/23/21

 

Poem this morning in my inbox was perfectly matched to this morning's soggy walk

Lesson from the Coyote Willows

 

Only when it rains do coyote willows

turn their brightest red, as they do

today in the drizzle and gray, and oh,

how I fall in love with them now,

these slender stems that know

how to regenerate from brokenness,

bringing their brilliant vermillion

to the dim of the day.

 

Let us live this way. When it is dark,

let us find what is brightest in us

and share it with the soggy world,

a thicket of grace in the midst of gloom,

not fancy, but rampant and so deeply willing

to share radiance, to dazzle, to blaze.

~Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

This week's beauty

Friday Fire

the above was the blooming basket I'd sent Mom for Mother's Day, which was disappointingly nothing to look at when it arrived. But over the next ten days it kept opening new surprises. 

As of Saturday 5/22

 

Happy Birthday Ali!

 

May Skies (so far)

surprise snow morning!

 

this is the most bizarre thing -- the dead leaves from last fall never dropped

and the new ones are just coming in around them!

Mother's Day goodies