opening the cabin

memorial weekend has come and gone. the family cabin is open for another summer. a new member visited it for the first time.

i'm happy to be back home now though. and the little guy seems to be happy about it too. he appeared to have recognized that he was back in his little world and was more excited than i've ever seen him. total joy.

here's wishing us all a productive week ahead! =)

words to shoot by

"Mirror" is up over on Words to Shoot By. Check out the interpretations here! I'm so glad to be apart of them.

my star

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One of these days I'll probably get back to shooting, get back to all the wonderful things online, get back to business as usual.... but for now, on Sunday nights I do find a little time to stop by and say "hi." I hope you are well. =)
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Tonight, Bub and I are thinking of our fellow Minneapolitans who suffered a deadly and destructive tornado this afternoon. Prayers for safety and shelter tonight and for recovery in the weeks ahead.

Finally, Sunday

Sundays finally equal long walks along the creek, sunshine, and flowers once again.

I'm trying to pull the camera back out but I feel like I don't remember how to shoot. I do however, know how to make an impromptu hat for Bub when it seems like the walk might get a tad windy.

(Hint: Long sleeve t-shirt. Note: From the closet, not off my back. Haha!)

Changes

I have a feeling we won't be getting a spring here in Minnesota. The state had threats of snow flurries last week, now today it's 70 and sunny. Feels like we are going to fast forward to summer. That doesn't feel right. I like to be eased into things. I like the subtleties of spring and fall, the way they hint and what's to come, and they way they smell of change.

There is nothing subtle about the changes around here. The arrival of Bub means that I have to really plan out my attempts to get some gardening done. I loaded him up this week to bring him outside while I worked on a flowerbed. I don't know if it was the sun or the wind, but he only lasted 5 minutes. Will it get easier?

We did take a nice long walk. The stroller is a magical bubble for him. He falls asleep and there's no bump I could hit that would wake him up. And today I was able to prune all our bushes and remove dead stems from the garden while the hubs sat in the shade with him.

My brain doesn't quite work the way it used to. I forget the names of flowers and I can't identify them by their new shoots as easily as before. I had to go back through my photo files from last year to figure out what was in some of the beds. That folder was where I found this photograph above.

So what if spring will be crazy short this year, or that I can't rattle off flower names. Bub and I will take a long walk and everything will be okay.