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And so am I with this sweet season in life. So much to love, so much to embrace. So much to be thankful for. So much to nurture and so much to hope for. I hope you have a beautiful weekend my dear friends. May you swoon to the moon and back in all that you do.
Love you,
Kim
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I often get asked if I live in paradise and of course I don't. But then again, perhaps I do.
;-)
I simply try my very best to focus on the beauty around me and I love seeing the light everywhere that it can be found and it can be found everywhere if we really seek it. And, yes, sometimes we have to try so very hard but it is there.
I took the image above early this morning. It was cold but beautiful. And I loved seeing the sunlight - so fresh and so new - sparkle and grace the Egret as she quietly groomed.
Good Morning light! You are beautiful and I love seeking you.
xo
Love is in the air and nests are being made. Mama Swans have begun their sitting and waiting and waiting and waiting.
And right around Easter time, wee fuzzy peeping precious babies will be born - breaking free tentatively and then determinedly from their most beautiful of blue eggs so that they can say hello to the world in only the way that they can.
These moments of everyday miracles that heaven and nature BRING will once again make my heart ...
Well you know - sing.
And overflow with so many emotions.
There's just something in the way (to quote Nirvana here) about the swan. To spend time with them and to witness their poetic and spiritual rhythm of their lives is life changing. And while my heart breaks when the city takes the babies away to raise them off-site and I swear that I won't go back because my heart can't take it, I do.
Because, yes, there's just something in the way......
xo
My dear friends, Lori and Dave, built THE MOST ADORABLE playhouse for their grandchildren. Their granddaughter, Evelynn, turned two and they hosted her birthday party for her. I brought Summer Lynn with me to the party and needless to say, Summer Lynn LOVED playing in the playhouse so much! The two, along with Evelynn's brother, Cole, were darling to watch as they got down to the business of good old fashioned homekeeping.
Such sweeties! I could have watched them play forever. Thank you Miss Evelynn for such birthday fun! Happy Birthday to you precious one!
xo
It is Sunday afternoon and everything is nice and clean. Well almost everything. I am sure there are lots of dust bunnies and piles of doggy hair somewhere. And I don't care. It's time to take a nap with Maggie.
I have my priorities straight you know.
;-)
The above images were taken this Wednesday morning from 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. - give or take a few moments of chit and chat and this and that with my early bird human lake friends... no pun intended.
;-)
As the lake sparkled and I - as I always do, marveled - I fed Papa Goose who was not in a talkative mood and I fed Miss Mini who was. I saw the bald eagle fly above me and tried to capture in that fleeting moment its majesty. I took the heron's picture in the sky and as it stood nearby though I do not like him. And yes he knows it. :-( I took the Australian swan's picture as she was about to begin her bath and yes I do love her and yes she does know that. :-) I tried to capture the golden sunlight as it illuminated the egret perched on top of the tree. I happily took the pekin duck's picture as he posed from his chosen rock seemingly just for me. I looked up to see the always amazing and independent anhinga spreading his wings so I took that shot too. And as the Great White Pelican from Wisconsin touched down on the water with my threatening approach, I clicked quickly, hoping to capture his beauty even if he was afraid of me.
The brand new blooming iris with a wee bit of dew WAS beautiful. The wooden bench on the west side where many in solitude sit and reflect and pray was empty. There were woodpeckers and a hummingbird in a tree that I could not capture as they eluded me. There was a small plane in the sky and an ambulance going by and a dog on a leash growling.
And there was life above and under and to the right and to the left and to the......
EVERYWHERE.
I almost stayed home. I needed, or so I thought, that second cup of coffee.
But I don't NEED coffee. I NEED the life around me. I am so very grateful that it is here. Often feebly captured with my most often dirty lens but..... it is here. To see, live, and embrace.
And my heart is so thankful.
xo
She swept diligently.
And she worked up quite a thirst doing so therefore she sipped her very special and beloved apple juice appreciatively.
She kissed lovingly.
And she generously shared her yummy, although a wee bit stale, Cheerios with her object of affection.
She grew sleepy.
And she went to bed so easily. Not a peep. Not a weep. Just a "night-night" and a settle- in- snuggle with her beloved blankie, "Melmo."
Elmo is really "Melmo" don't you know.
;-)
Thank you Summer Lynn for being the bestest sleepover sweetie in the world.
I love you so much,
Your Birdie
I've added a new link - it is underneath my guest book link - to a page on my site where I will share random portfolio pics that I have taken. The above image is of Randy and his daughter, Evelynn that I took about a year and a half ago. So so sweet and I may have already shared it with you, but that's okay. It is good to repeat sweet.
:-)
One of my New Year's goals - I prefer to say goals now instead of resolutions - is to work on my photography business. I love capturing the moments, as you know, and if I can do so for others and in a way that they can afford it that will make my heart very happy. So this is my baby step in that direction.... I hope you enjoy these images that I have taken in the past. You can click HERE to see. I will add more images there as the year unfurls.
xo,
Kim
xo
Oh my gosh. She is SO cute! I don't think I have shared Miss Mini with you before, but if I have, please forgive me. She is a petite, very feminine, but spunky duck with a wee bit of adorable fluff on the top of her head. That makes her a "crested pekin duck" in technical terms and an absolutely precious duck in human terms. ;-) Miss Mini lives on the south side of the lake - which is my side and that makes me very happy - and she does not stray very often. She has MANY suitors, but I do believe she may be spoken for as of a few days ago and her prince charming is very very dapper, I might add. I will try to take a picture of the two of them soon. She is so cute as she spryly moves around, stepping lightly on my toes literally as I try to feed her and her friends. I just love her.
I know you will too.
xo
When I started this site after previously sharing at Dear Daisy Cottage, I really had no idea what it would be or how it would unfurl or if I would even do it longer than a day. And many did not understand why I began this one at that time - and still don't - and that is okay as I am not always easy to understand. ;-) But it was something that I really felt moved to do as I tried to listen to my heart and the stirrings of my soul, and as I still try to do. And as I have been sharing here for now what has turned into years, YOU have been here even though what I share is often repetitive and so not like what I used to share - although snippets of that do show up every now and then. :-)
I am just so appreciative of you. I treasure your presence. And I also thank you for your emails; your cards; your gifts; and your encouraging wind beneath my wings that amazingly blows my way at just the right time.
IF I can remember how to do so, I would like to place links to your sites and share them on my sidebar. Please leave your link in the comments below and maybe share with us a little about your site if you are moved to do so. I will work on placing your links in the days ahead.
This is a VERY small thing that I want to do to thank you for sharing in my imagery and for caring. You're just so beautiful.
xo,
Kim
*edited to let you know that I am in the process now of adding your links to my sidebar. IF I miss yours in the days ahead, PLEASE let me know as I would never want to overlook you. Thank you all SO much! xoxoxo
First days of January. Christmas decor is all put away. Doggies are nappy. Weather is tending to be cloudy. Summer Lynn rang in the new year spending a day and night with me; spying on the neighbors and holding my place beside her on the swing.
;-)
All is calm - even after our silent night has passed. How beautiful is that?
xo
edited to add this one of Summer Lynn that I forgot to include because, yes, I am one of "those" silly grandmothers. ;-)
