I live on a farm ... — country living

Moments Art Show, another go 'round

November 3, 2010 • art • country life • country living • culture • faith • family • friends • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • photography • relationships • romance • spirituality • thoughts • travel • women

Can you imagine waking up in the morning and greeting the first person you see -- whether it is your spouse, partner, child, or even yourself in the mirror -- and bursting forth in the biggest grin and saying genuinely, "Hey, it's you! I get to have another day in this life with YOU in it! "

October comes lovely

October 14, 2010 • art • baby • children • country life • country living • culture • faith • family • farm • farm life • flowers • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • photography • relationships • romance • socks • thoughts • yarn

October comes lovely each year, whether cold and wet or crisp and windy ... for me it is the most lovely month of the year. Our trees are at what looks to me like peak or near-peak color today. It is rainy and dark, but the autumn leaves glow far and wide bringing a strange brightness to what would otherwise be a gloomy, moody day. My son is visiting, and yesterday afternoon we all took a quick two-mile bike ride; Grandpa, me, little Sweet Pea in a trailer pulled by Grandpa, her mom (my daughter) and my son. It was...

The beginning of autumn

September 20, 2010 • art • baby • Christmas • country life • country living • faith • family • gifts • Holidays • home • inspiration • knitting • knitting for babies • Life • love • marriage • personal • photography • relationships • romance • socks • spirituality • thoughts • women • yarn

As autumn has approached this year, my daughter and I have taken up our knitting needles and begun to knit with each other a daily basis. This is truly the first time I have been able to knit this entire year.

Blue Friday

August 13, 2010 • agriculture • art • baby • children • country life • country living • culture • faith • family • farm • farm life • gifts • knitting • Life • love • photography • socks • travel • yarn

Today is Blue Friday for two reasons, 1) it is a gorgeously beautiful day with a deep blue sky and plenty of white fluffy clouds, and 2) I am not feeling well so have already taken two naps today and wishing for several more if only I could find the time. At a minimum, I need to announce the winner of the July Sock Yarn Give Away ... so here goes. Her name is "Debby", and she left this comment to my gratitude challenge: Our lives seemed to crash as we lost half of our retirement, all of the equity...

July is here, July is nearly gone

July 30, 2010 • art • country life • country living • faith • family • farm life • flowers • friendship • gardening • health • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • personal • photography • relationships • socks • spirituality • summer • yarn

Hello dear readers, I have been absent from my blog during the month of July. As it turns out, I needed some time to recuperate from months of intense fine art painting. Summer also brought with it many activities including a day of plein aire painting on the Master Gardener's Garden Path tour along with other painters from the county, our annual Chicken Barbeque fund raiser at church, and many chores around our property. Even today I don't have as much time to write as I would like to. However, you have been promised a July Sock Yarn Give Away...