It’s branches are arrayed in gold
It’s boughs the sight in winter greet.
With hues as bright, with leaves as green
As summer scatters on the scene.
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An angel mid the woods of May
Embroidered it with radiance gay-
That gossamer with gold bedight-
Those fires of God – those gems of light.
~from the Welsh of Dafydd ap Gwillym
~Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837-1909
Clear skies again in Southern California without a cloud anywhere to be seen. This was taken on Wednesday of this week at the Gardens of the World in Thousand Oaks, California. If you scroll down past this post you’ll see a photo tour of these lovely grounds.
For more Sky Watch photos head over to Wiggers World.
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Praise God from whom all blessings flow, I woke up this morning and my spasms are gone. All I have now is a stiff, weak back that I will carefully and slowly exercise back. Taking a step at a time. Thank you so much for all your prayers for me. Your phone calls and your emails were an encouragement, too. Have a wonderful day!
Psalm 30:2 “O Lord my God, I called to you for help and you have healed me.”
April is a rainbow month,
Of sudden springtime showers.
Bright with golden daffodils
and lots of pretty flowers.
April 6th – 12th ~ Share ideas and pictures that involve stitching for the tea table. Any kind of stitches count: sewing, embroidery, knitting, crochet, tatting, quilting, etc. The work can be yours or of someone else, but should be homemade rather than done by factory machines. Ideas are
napkins, tea cozies, table linens, and other creations made with tea themes.
I have always called these dish towels tea towels so I’m including them in my stitch post. The Tea Cozy in the center was a gift that a friend in England knit for me after I was so excited seeing my very first tea cozy at her house in 1973. The doilie to the right of the tea cozy is great for setting a teapot on. I have a lot of tablecloths and napkins that I use for pretty tea tables that do not have a tea theme in particular. Most of these items are in my home in Washington and I don’t have access to them for this post. I’m looking forward to my visits to your sites to see what stichery you have…
I forgot about these fancy teaspoons we inherited from my MIL and decided to add them to this post
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When we got to the Sycamore Canyon Campground Parking at 7:15 the gate was still locked. Hmmm see the sign that says gate open 7am – 10pm? The attendant finally arrived at 7:30 to open the gate…
We stayed on the main trail today and saw a few joggers and several groups of cyclists.
The trees are really interesting in this canyon.
The shrubs were blooming nicely. It was gloomy with a thick high marine layer.
These purple wildflowers deserved a photograph.
Spring is a great time to do this hike because of all the pretty blooms.
We even happened on some California Poppies.
Some of our old and new favorites. The wild fennel is an old favorite of ours. We love using fennel in cooking and the smell when we rub it between our hands is licorice wonderful. The coreopsis is such a interesting plant the way it grows on that stalk. In the Spring it’s all over the hillsides. The one downside to our hike today were the mosquitos! They were out in droves. Anyone know of an Avon distributor so I can order some Skin-so-soft?
This looks like a parrot to me.
At the end of the hike we strolled over to see the high surf.
My walking total steps for the week averaged out to 10,152.
I’m going to keep on walking. How about you?
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For my next Decor-a-Tea post I’m sharing my random sugar and creamers that I have displayed here and there in my house.
Every time I see a complete sugar and creamer set at Goodwill or any thrift store I’m tempted to buy them.
I keep some of my tea and other entertaining goodies in this old cabinet from Dear’s parents.
An old pink depression glass sugar and creamer.
More Royal Albert Moss Rose accessories and a Homer Laughlin plate.
For more Decor-a-Tea posts head over to LaTeaDah’s.
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Swampy is hosting Fun Monday and this is a short version of her assignment for us.
Choose a topic/theme and make an alphabetical list of words, phrases, photos…however you want to share your topic/theme.
For Spring I assembled this flower collage with an ode to it below using the letters of the alphabet in consecutive order. Not Shakespeare by any means just my zaney attempt at being clever. Enjoy…
A beautiful collage delights. Every fragrance gentle, heavy, intense, journeys kindly lingering midst new odes poetically quipped resting still tantalized under vines with Xanadu yearnings zealous and zaney!
And because yesterday was Easter here are some ABC words I associate with it…
Angel ~ Blessed ~ Christ ~ Delivered ~ Empty tomb ~ Freed ~ Grace ~ Hope ~ Infinate ~ Joy ~ King ~ Lord ~ Mercy ~ Nails ~ Omnipotent ~ Praise ~ Quench ~ Resurrected ~ Savior ~ Throne ~ Unblemished ~ Victorious ~ Wounded ~ eXalted ~ Yield ~ Zion
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Christos Voskress! Voistina Voskress!
Христос Воскрес!
Воистину воскрес!
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Our Easter preparations are on their way.
Katie colors the eggs each year.
I decorate the show piece of our food celebration, the Kulich (Russian Easter Bread). I did say decorate. I didn’t say I baked it. That is still on my list to do before I die.
We will celebrate all day tomorrow with friends, family, food, hallelujahs and hosannas to our Resurrected King.
Blessings on all your preparations and celebrations…
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The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 