I’ll be linking up late with Mary at The Little Red House with my mosaic this week. I’ve been in Southern California and am flying home on Sunday evening. On Saturday my daughter Katie and I joined some family members for a stroll around Descanso Gardens in the La Canada/Flintridge area of Los Angeles. It was a beautiful day for the gardens.
Early Monday I’m headed for my Jury Duty. Hope to get around later in the day. Have a wonderful Monday everone!
If it’s almost Monday it is time for some Blue and some Mosaic fun. Visit Mary at The Little Red House for Mosaic Monday and Sally at Smiling Sally for Blue Monday.
On Friday I took a walk at Juanita Bay Park and at St. Edwards State Park and the Robins were very active. Some were busy gathering nest material.
Seattle Blue is very well represented by our Seattle Sounders F.C. team(Soccer!) Bottom right photo…our wonderful son Josh, an amazing photographer and friend Jeremy Leffel, Our friend and computer programmer extraordinaire Beau, and our favorite family doctor Dave. Beau, Josh and I have a total of 5 season ticket seats together. Fun times. We were so happy we beat the Kansas City Wizards 1-0 in the 2nd to the last minute of the game. Sheesh. Keep us on the edge of our seats!
If and when my daughter gets married her wedding date will depend on whether Jeremy is available to take photos!! Yes, he’s that good!
Do you notice anything missing in the photo on the right in this mosaic? While my son and I were at the soccer game Dear and Katie chopped down that pine tree. Dear tied the tree securely to Katie’s trailer pull, made a precision cut angled just right and Katie pulled it down with her car. I was so sorry to be gone while this took place. I would have loved to have gotten photos of it coming down…
And before any tree huggers come after me, we had to take it down because it was damaging our roof and allowing rats free access to the garage!!
Please visit Mary at Little Red House to join in or to see more mosaics.
Have a wonderful Taxes are due week everyone!
What does Holy Week have to do with bunnies, especially the stuffed variety? Not much but we are sorting out and Spring cleaning around here in a major way. That’s not particularly holy although it could be. So my daughter brought out all her stuffed animals and then put together all her bunnies for an Easter shot. Then she asked, “should I bring out the lambs, too?” My reply to her was “If you are still a Christian you should.” We like to concentrate on the Lamb of God at Easter time. :0) I hope you can appreciate my sense of humor…my daughter chuckled. We are very seriou about Jesus. “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world”
This week we’ll be busy preparing for our Easter celebration. My sister Lana G! and I will be making Russian Easter Bread (Kulich) and a soft sweet cheese spread (Seerney Paska) to spread on the bread. My daughter Katie will color Easter Eggs. We love our traditions.
We’ll observe Good Friday. On Easter morning we’ll attend an Easter Service and greet each other with the Easter Greeting “Christ is Risen”…response “He is Risen Indeed”. My little bunnies are holding this greeting to grace our table. Any phone call we get on Easter Sunday will start with this greeting in Russian of course. Our Easter meal after church will have lamb for the main course with side dishes I haven’t decided on yet.
Hope you all have a blessed Holy Week.
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My apple tree is on the brink of pushing out it’s sweet little apple blossoms in full. Happy first week of Spring to everyone.
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Mount Vernon, Washington is known for tulip fields but before the tulips bloom they have beautiful daffodils!
Dear and I took a quick trip north to see anything blooming Saturday morning. We saw some beautiful daffodils but a great surprise was seeing Trumpeter Swans! Trumpeter Swans come to Mt. Vernon each year for a time! The swans are dwindling now but they still were great to see…
The largest of the North American native waterfowl and one of our heaviest flying birds, the Trumpeter Swan is large and white. It holds its long neck straight up, often with a kink at the base.
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We’re on the eve of Mary’s Mosaic Monday and Sally’s Blue Monday. Visit these great hostesses to see some more mosaics and pretty blues from around blog land…
Dear and I had our “last” dawn walk at Emma Wood State Beach in Ventura, California this past Saturday. A crisp beautiful morning after a rain. Soon we will be on the road headed back to Seattle. We’ll miss the beautiful California beaches.
My blogging will be limited this week. I have 5 more days here and my services will be shut down sometime later in the week. I hope to get around to as many of you as I can. I hope you all have a great last week of February…
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I’m on a plane on Valentine’s Day headed back to L.A. from Seattle to meet up with my Valentine. We took a day off to spend in Downtown Seattle last week before he flew back to L.A. Hope you’ve all had a day of enjoying your loved ones.
Now scoot over to Mary’s at The Little Red House to see some more mosaics…
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My Condo is for sale. Wanna buy it?
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We put our Condo on the market last week and we will be moving back to the State of Washington the end of February. I am looking forward to having only one home to care for…
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For my combination of Mosaic Monday and Blue Monday I have photos of the Grand Opening of the Sports Complex behind our Neighborhood.
It’s hard to make out the wolf moon from the sports field lights in the center picture. The fields were full of activity into the night after the Grand Opening began at 4:00 P.M.
“Full Moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States. The tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full Moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred. There was some variation in the Moon names, but in general, the same ones were current throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior. European settlers followed that custom and created some of their own names. Since the lunar month is only 29 days long on the average, the full Moon dates shift from year to year. Here is the Farmers Almanac’s list of the full Moon names.
• Full Wolf Moon – January Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January’s full Moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule. Some called it the Full Snow Moon, but most tribes applied that name to the next Moon.”
After getting some photos we decided to return during the daylight hours on Sunday.
I took this shot through the Baseball backstop. There are no baseball teams practicing here till Spring. Right now it’s all Soccer. There are 3 baseball diamonds and more soccer fields then we could count. At least 12 and probably more portable soccer fields of play.
Lots of blue teams and blue accessories for Blue Monday!
Here’s what the field looked like before the Sports Complex was started. And this next photo was taken today…
We are so pleased they protected and showcased this great old California Oak Tree. This next shot was taken back in January of 2008.
A beautiful winter day in Southern California…
Thank you Mary for hosting Mosaic Monday and thank you Sally for hosting Blue Monday!
ht: Wolf Moon info ~ Farmer’s Almanac
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The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 