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<span style="font-size: large;">Gone for a while..as I have been gone. Have photos, but it hurts to pull them up. Been forbidden to knit, so much pain lately and no one knows why. Shoulders and neck, arms that were doing well, but then everything went to Hell. I hope to be back one of these days. Forgive my not commenting on blogs that I love. Wishing all who come here love and grace.</span></div>
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ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-75425935217042154132015-11-08T16:04:00.000-08:002015-11-08T16:04:26.984-08:00"Dishing It Up"<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">..as in making dishcloths for some Christmas presents. Not exactly on most peoples' wishlist, but I do know that some really like them. My photos are not very good. I blame the light outside today. It's been very dreary and quite rainy at times. It is always a delight to blame trash photos on the light! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The last one is obviously not completed. The pattern, I believe, is called The Almost Lost Dishcloth. When you have completed fourteen points, you seam it up and then close the hole in the middle. It is a fun knit and turns out quite lovely. The first ones I also like. I don't know the name of them and when you knit them, they look as if they will never become a square...but, magic happens and they do. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Wishing all a wonderful week, and sending loving thoughts to some who are going through very hard times now.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">With love, Ellen.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-45248485518266705342015-11-01T13:21:00.000-08:002015-11-01T13:31:21.056-08:00Farewell <br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dear October,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You were splendid. Do not tell the others, but you are my favorite month. You brought bright sunny days, not too hot, chilly and misty mornings, the right amount of gentle rains and such radiance.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I love you October. You are never to be removed from my heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wooly bears, hops, gourds, pumpkins, brilliant spider webs, feathers, lovely views of our bridge and your breathtaking colors.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Wishing all a lovely and happy November,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">p.s. Dearest October, I do not mean to offend you or to cause hard feelings, but I am a bit disappointed that you did not take the fruit flies with you. They are still in residence here. I know you can't do <i>everything.</i> </span>ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-72409281476632817212015-10-18T18:23:00.001-07:002015-10-18T18:23:20.447-07:00Fall<div style="text-align: center;">
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ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-57090255483260631042015-10-12T15:53:00.000-07:002015-10-12T15:53:35.837-07:00Gifts From the Garden<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">***Yellow crookneck squash***</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A horrendous and out of control case of cellulitis?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A crippling skin disease?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Abuse of steroids?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or, late night encounters while unprotected?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gorgeous week wishes for everyone.</span></div>
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ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-21601595667188008172015-10-09T13:16:00.001-07:002015-10-09T13:21:10.522-07:00Walking Around the Nursery and Pastures<span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday I took a walk through the nursery and by some of our pastures. We do live in the midst of all of this busyness. It works out just fine as we are a wholesale nursery and I still am able to have privacy which makes me very happy. I have only to stroll out the door and can meander fifty-ish acres. I hope you enjoy these photos. (For some reason I cannot close up with some words below the last photo...It's a good thing that you cannot hear me swear! So I will wish all of you a happy weekend. Sending love, Ellen.)</span><br />
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ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-35000409129749042062015-10-04T20:23:00.000-07:002015-10-05T05:33:22.503-07:00Too Much<span style="font-size: large;">Made tea.. made tea.. sipped Scotch.. cursed.. called on God.. held close to those I loved who were near.. said prayers.. cried again..looked for answers.. asked for answers.. prayed for answers...no answers..too much.. too much..sat with dogs..</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What is wrong with this country..why do we have to have damned guns?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This all relates to the small community college that is not that far from where I live..perhaps an hour and a half away. Many of the kids I had in school over the years went there..I went there at times for teacher in-service. This tragedy happened in Roseburg, Oregon. It has happened all over this country. This is just not o.k. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I certainly cannot fix it. I cannot make anything better, except the smallness of the place that surrounds me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can send loving thoughts to people who know me not..but perhaps that is a beginning..and, in comfort because this has been too close, I can gather images that help me to heal..because I have lost some loved ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(re-reading this, I see I need to be clear..no one in my family was harmed.)</span></td></tr>
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ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-184559835557712722015-09-21T16:39:00.000-07:002015-09-21T16:39:31.068-07:00Glorious Colors<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-61466507308599018532015-09-01T11:28:00.004-07:002021-08-29T10:02:49.809-07:00August Leaving<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Last night, through the open window, I heard the garden gate gently open and the padded voices of warm greetings between age old friends. The crickets, in anticipation, rested their fiddles. All was still except for the muted voices of August and September.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">September whispered her admiration for August's work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">"I see you have been so busy and I know you must be tired and ready for rest."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Yes, I am tired and I am ready to relax and to hand everything over to you, September. Look at all you carry with you..your paints, your brushes and the glorious colors of your threads and the gleaming of your sharp needles. It must be such a pleasure and a joy, this work that you will do."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"It is, but truly I only begin it. October will come along and add the flourishes and brilliance that I cannot do. And I have heard that November eventually erases all but the reluctant browns of the steady oaks."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> "Do you ever find it a bit ironic and startling that each of us will smudge and change the unique beauty of one another?" asked July.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There continued soft exchanges until the midnight striking of the clock. All fell silent until I heard the small rustle of the calendar page as August nestled herself against July's back.</span></div>
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ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-75240761058910230952015-08-29T15:08:00.000-07:002015-08-29T15:08:48.345-07:00Coasters or Mug Rugs<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">These are lots of fun to make and so easy. Do a search for Criss Cross Coasters and you will find several tutorials. I'd leave a link here, but that implies I know how to do that...and that I do not know how to do.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I made a whole bunch a while back ago and gave them all away. I love how colorful they are. I ended up not using any interfacing because I like the corners to be a bit more crisp and I think they are quite substantial without the extra weight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">p.s. we got a bit of rain last night without the added drama of electricity in the air. your good thoughts made it happen, that's for certain.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Love, Ellen.</span>ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-60191128730434534202015-08-25T15:10:00.000-07:002015-08-25T15:10:54.421-07:00Small Shots<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hoping that all of you are having a lovely week. It's been beautiful here today. Warm but not unbearable and the smoke from all of the wild fires has stayed away for the last few days, for which I am very thankful. I do think of all of the communities that are suffering such unbelievable hardships, fright and loss in this summer of unending heat and drought. It's like living in a tinder box, just waiting for Mother Nature to strike the match. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Saturday I rode with my niece to Winchester Bay. We tootled along in her pumpkin orange Jeep. I imagined myself as a geriatric Cinderella let out from The Farm For Fragile Fairy Tale Fading Females. It was a lovely day, a bit cloudy, a bit windy, and much cooler than what we have been experiencing here at home.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The bay was blessedly uncrowded and the waves amazingly busy and quite loud. Here is some of what I captured on my camera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today I declared it to be Slovenly Slothful Sunday and if it were a reality show, I definitely would not be kicked out. In fact, I think that I would win the contest. I have made the bed, prepared lunch, gone to town to get my husband a six pack of beer, and done an astounding two loads of wash. Well, I did empty the dishwasher and to my astonishment have posted another frivolous entry here.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Tomorrow's another day. Why do it today when you can do it tomorrow or even this coming Friday?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I want to thank each of you who have visited and left such lovely and encouraging comments for me. I do not take them lightly or for granted. You make my day.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Love, Ellen. </span>ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-75811310702956462722015-08-13T15:27:00.000-07:002015-08-13T15:27:34.073-07:00Triple B's<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My wee Brown Betty and a Book..in a sea of Typhoo tea sailed off the other day to the end of a beloved tale.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day by Winifred Watson is one of the dearest books I have ever read. I love Miss Guinevere Pettigrew. I admire her courage and her sudden strokes of genius. I want to hold her hand and stroke her dear face in affection and with acknowledgement of all the painful years she has endured. I want to laugh with her, but not at her. She and this book are a pair of keepers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If you have not read Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, I encourage you to do so. I do not for one second think that you will regret it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, Ellen.</span>ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-59063577768829469842015-08-11T12:36:00.000-07:002015-08-11T12:36:30.956-07:00Early Morning Light<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sky truly was that red the other morning. I channeled my inner sailor and took warning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a wish to all that your week is going along well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(I sincerely hope that I have not caused anyone to fall out of their chair...imagine two posts in just a few days. I have absolutely no idea what has come over me.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, Ellen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are days that I become so engrossed in what I am doing, what is happening around me, and what needs to be done, that I truly forget that there is this poor little space that could certainly use some love and attention. It has been an exceptionally busy summer, but others manage with the busyness and still manage to keep their blogs alive and well. I seem to lack that gene. I'll skip listing my excuses and share some photos taken since I last posted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I harvested some lavender. It has dried beautifully, the scent is divine and I hope to make some sachets soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We picked just shy of thirty pounds of blueberries in less that thirty minutes. The field is just across our bridge and within walking distance. They are beautiful and all tucked up in the freezer to savor throughout the coming months. Yesterday I did make a cobbler with a yummy crumble on top. Delish!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These grow wild down by the same bridge and are egg yolk plums.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They are wonderfully juicy and when the sun hits them just right, they positively glow and do look so like an egg yolk. We gobbled them up in a few days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have had no rain in so long. Spring here was unusually dry as well. It has been so hot for so many days...sometimes above 100 degrees. We do have the luxury of no humidity and a cooling off every night. It is not unheard of to have a 40 degree difference between late afternoon and the morning temps the following day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wear a flannel shirt or sweatshirt every a.m. until noonish. I can't complain about that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Still struggling with the shoulder issues, though there has been such an improvement. Right now my other shoulder is crying uncle, probably because it's just worn out from carrying such a load. Physical therapy continues and it has been a godsend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope all of you who come here are well and enjoying the best of summers. As always, I do love to hear from you and feel so privileged that you visit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Early morning, just outside our kitchen/dining room area, (I use the term dining room loosely as it is separated from the kitchen</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The large black blob you can see by the fence and near the turkeys is one of our Newfoundland dogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and proceeded to take a nap. They also seemed unperturbed by her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh happy conviviality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The darling chipmunk on top of the roof comes and goes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She, or he, lives in our woodshed and gives me a ridiculous </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">amount of pleasure. The butterfly was such a gift as</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">we have very few of them here...at least I seldom see them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Such a wonderful way to start the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hoping everyone of you is well and enjoying a stellar week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Summer has come in with a bang this week with temps up to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">grateful that is always cools off at night and we </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Silage is being made, ox-eye daisies are blanketing everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The morning light is delicious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wishing all a lovely rest of the week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With love, Ellen.</span></div>
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ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-58115829798639213962015-05-30T11:18:00.000-07:002015-05-30T11:20:55.193-07:00Just Two<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Best to all, Ellen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Loved creek that in winter roars and where I can see</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of patience and such beauty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ducks too and determined beavers..a soup of Mother Nature in all of her glory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The humble wild rose...asks for nothing other than to be here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And last, but not least the glory of this tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If trees could tell stories, surely this old man would..</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from the times of traders and trappers, he truly would.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today the sun shone and in the late afternoon</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and early evening I have watched flotillas </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">of powder puff clouds slowly drifting in a sky</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">of blue..such a sweet blue..a lovely blue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">May love and goodness come to all</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">who visit here.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">With love, Ellen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The last of course is not a flower basket,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My son found this is our nursery in one of the greenhouses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fingers crossed these wee souls with be safe from the crows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've been going to physical therapy twice a week now</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for a torn shoulder muscle and tendinitis..tendonitis (sp?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's better, but still so hard to deal with at times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At least I can knit a bit, which was something</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I could not manage for some months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our weather has been far from happy lately...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">galvanized steel gray and a sky at times</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so low, I swear I could brush my fingers across it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The wood burner is still in use. I know this won't</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wishing all a wonderful weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With love, Ellen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">....and then I watched as the wind took them...</span></div>
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ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-6764064671177796792015-04-20T21:15:00.001-07:002021-08-26T09:14:10.739-07:00She<span style="font-size: large;">In the late Autumn She discards her robes. She clearly becomes tired. Slowly her modesty drops. That which She hid is revealed, drop by drop, encouraged by the rain, the wind, and the cold. No longer does the sun warm her. The clock of her days slows down minute by minute. Sleep overcomes her for months. Quiet and rest fill her. Her lovely bones are revealed, elbows, knees and shoulders of nuance. The strength and beauty of her inner self astounds me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Come Spring, come the sun, come the warmth...she slowly wakes up and like the modest woman she is, she seemingly overnight clothes herself in all of her glory. Neither wind nor Spring rain will reveal the loveliness of her curves, her bones, nor her feminine strength. Shy through the Spring, private through the Summer, She remains the one who lights up my world from my kitchen window.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love her beauty through all of the seasons and give her thanks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our sons were here. Our two grandsons were here as well as our granddaughter. Some mended fences in the pasture, one drove the tractor and spread fertilizer, someone welded and repaired the trailers used to haul our plants around the nursery, and one little girl checked on the chickens and brought the eggs in. It is always joyful to be together. At noon the seven of us sat down to eat lunch.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Good times shared.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Late in the afternoon some drifted in. The two grandsons who are brothers, gravitated to the front room to do what they like best.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">One to play some violent game on my computer and the other to play the piano. Like our sons, they are polar opposites, but also like our two boys, they share the same core values and an abiding love of one another. As Seth demolished aliens on the screen, Andrew fingered Jerome Kern on the piano. (The irony of this did not escape me.) I cried quietly while cutting carrots in the kitchen.. for the beauty of Kern's melodies and the beauty that fills my life with these men and that one darling girl who all enrich my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Samantha and our foreman's daughter who fashioned tissue paper outfits for their dolls.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And Seth the monster slayer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Wishing all a good week. (And, yes, this place needs spiffing up)</span></div>
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ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-18784111469294809482015-04-07T13:57:00.001-07:002015-04-07T13:57:10.954-07:00Spring-ish<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Spring in Western Oregon is such an on and off game of chance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We've had our daffodils, the magnolias are stripped of blooms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dandelions freckle the grass, ferns flourish and the mosses,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">oh, the cushy, verdant mosses are cloaking stem, trunk and every</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">rock they can claim...lots of real estate snapped up by those bossy mosses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you don't care for the weather, give it a few minutes and in the blink of an eye you may find a hole in the clouds and there will be that beautiful spot of blue. Wait a bit and the lovely blue will be zipped up tight, swallowed by the gun metal grey of a solid ceiling of clouds. Rain will fall as mist or in torrents that will flatten the grasses. Hail, too, may tattoo the drive and bounce off the roof. You'll put another log in the wood burner and turn on more lights in the house...only to trot around in the next hour to switch them off as glorious light fills the corners of your rooms. Ever changing and certainly capricious, that's our spring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And last, a darling baby. I think that we have had at least nine born in the last few weeks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you, as always, for your visits.</span></div>
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ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-8763985878807987042015-04-05T10:18:00.002-07:002015-04-05T10:18:30.233-07:00Wearing White for Eastertide<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love to all, Ellen.</span></div>
ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18245099394863979981noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169072460895663767.post-39331815407909367092014-11-02T18:48:00.003-08:002021-08-26T09:51:47.989-07:00Dark and Darker<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">We fell back in time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will get used to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The shadows no longer </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">hold the trees to the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Armadas of clouds have come and gone,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">fluff of childhood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pewter sky fills the landscape above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Furring maples, hornbeam and liquidambar</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">glow in the darkening gloom,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but the mosses assert themselves,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the resurrection ferns remind us</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that even in death there is life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are all of a season</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">spring young, summer golden</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">autumn fading</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and winter.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Gratitude bestows reverence....</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">changing forever</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">how we experience</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">life and the world.</span></div>
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