Sunday Serenity - Good Mama

Enclosed courtyard of our school - 5th year in a row this mama has come back to hatch her babies there
Friday we duck herders led them through the school to the nearby stream...and freedom...

Good mama mallard

Protecting her babies from 

the murdering crows

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xoabb

Sting + "murdering crows" lyric = good song!

GO 'WAY!

This is MY home!
photo taken 4/19/12
Columbia, MO


 This is my home,
So please just travel on thru
I plan to set up house here
And raise my babies blue

Do hope you find as nice a place
(Tho I don't think you will)
So if yours is not as good a home
Come back - visit me (from afar) - get your fill!

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xoabb
expect bird wonderfulness!

Sunday Serenity

Cody-dog checking to see if my dad and my bestest since child-hood friend (Bobbi) have fed the catfish properly.
Of course, Cody's judgement entirely depends on the number of treats she gets. Smart dog!
April 2012

When do friends become family

and family becomes friends?

When life is at its very best!

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xoabb

ahhh...it's all good!


A very wonderful Mother's Day to the best mom ever - my mom!
xoxoxoxoxoxo 

Weeping Crab (in more ways than one) :(

Weeping Crabapple Tree
3/31/12

"A tribute to a glorious tree that I'm sure is going to be torn down as its house has been torn down and the fence is in disrepair. The tree has been a welcome beauty spot for many many years...you will be missed!"

This lovely tree graced the yard directly across from the school where I work. The houses on the opposite side of the road are all on very small, but very expensive plots of land as they are in Westport and on the Saugatuck river. I went to work one morning about two weeks, and by the time I drove home seven hours later, the house was gone! This wonderful tree remained until the end of last week when, once again, it was there in all its glory when I came to work in the morning, and then, seven hours later was gone. I do believe this Spring was its most glorious bloom ever! It surely went out in a blaze of glory!

Progress will destroy beauty at times...ignore the orange cone, please. That's not at all beautiful!

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xoabb
expect unhappy events at times...

Sunday Serenity

Little Bear
April 2012

Little Bear drawing

His mama a masterpiece

(The first of many)

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xoabb

expect anything!

White Lilacs

Nothing more lovely

Than the smell of sweet lilacs

Wafting through spring air

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xoabb

expect beauty! 

T-H-I-N-K

Before you speak (or forward emails)...

  

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xoabb

I would give credit for this if I could. 

I can't as I can't find the author.

If you are the author or know the author, 

Please tell me!

I'd love to give credit where credit is due!

(I personally LOVE this poster! Don't you??)

Missourahhh Lettuce & Mom

Planting a feast of 

Ever-plenishing lettuce

Such good meals to come!

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xoabb

expect anything!

Pink!

pink lily of the valley in a hand-throw vase

From Connecticut
to Missouri. Lily-of-
the-valley. In pink!

~

Many moons ago when my son was just starting out playing Bambino baseball, he played on a field that had a parking lot located on the other side of a wooded area. We traveled a path through the woods back and forth between our cars and the field. As spring wore on, I watched this patch of foliage grow and start to bud. Imagine my surprise when they finally bloomed and were PINK lily of the valley! I decided then and there I had to get some starter pips for my garden and for my mom and dad's MO garden as well. A visit to The All-Night Nursery was planned accordingly. Long after all the baseball games were over and just as dusk was falling, back I went to the little patch with trowel and cardboard box in hand. I dug up some of the pips for myself and my parents (and was careful to leave more than half of the clump behind) and quickly high-tailed it home! Though last Saturday my CT pinks were just tiny shoots when I left there to come here, as you can see, the Missouri pinks are blooming in all their glory, and about a month before they normally do. (For that matter, everything in Missouri is WAY ahead of schedule; lilacs, daffodils and tree blossoms have long been bloomed out - nuthin' much for me to see this year. That said, the greenery of the already leafed out trees is just gorgeous.) By the way, the above flowers ancestors were ~sent~ from The All-Night Nursery 20 years ago this spring. Good memories...

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xoabb 

expect anything!

The only Confederate I've ever loved...

Pretty violet
One that's so dear to my heart
Bloom in your glory!

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xoabb

expect anything!