Incomprehensibly beautiful ...

I've looked up into our Maple tree over the months and spotted this little nest.

Always in awe of how even the tiniest of nests {and this one is tiny} can withstand all the changes in weather.

Heavy winds of the past weeks have broken branches from our tree ...  still  this little nest remained.

♥

And then ... it tumbled softly to our front garden and when I turned it over, this is  what I found inside ...  Amongst the crushed shell and leaves was a little wooden cross.

"In a world filled with doubt

step into a garden to know

Divine Intervention

exists"

~Mary Maude Daniels~

{ petunia was planted by my grandson and given to me a few weekends ago ... no matter how many flowers bloom in my garden ... this one will be my favourite } ♥

"Look deep into Nature

and then

you will understand

everything

better"

~Albert Einstein~

"I believe

the world

is

incomprehensibly beautiful ~

an endless prospect

of

magic and wonder"

~Ansel Adams~

Lilac Days xo

Lilac days in our garden ...

O were my love

yon Lilac fair,

Wi' purple blossoms

to the Spring,

and I

a bird

to shelter there,

when wearied

on my

little wing!

~Robert Burns~

Wash Day Sally ...

It's hanging clothes outside weather once again.

We use our clothes line from early Spring until LATE Fall ...

Over the years, I've had very large clothes lines that stretched across the yard ... umbrella style clotheslines that spun ... "make shift" clothes lines at the cottage ...

clothes lines that told our life story at the time ...

work shirts

gardening clothes

cloth diapers

baby sleepers

dog blankets :-)

not only good for the environment...

but good for the soul ♥

as a young mum, I would have to watch for squirrels as our garden was filled with Walnut trees and the squirrels would climb a branch, grab a walnut and start to peel it. I would have a line full of lovely white flannel nappies hanging to dry and any little bit of walnut peel would stain them.

nothing like getting into bed of an evening

to the sweet smell of fresh aired sheets

or lovely air dried towels

Wash Day Sally & The Lone Sock prints are available in my shop.

Both prints hang in my own laundry room with vintage washboard, vintage iron and basket of wooden pegs ...

{might as well make the laundry room pretty too}

We should all do what,

in the long run,

gives us joy

even if it is only

picking grapes

or sorting the laundry

~E B White~

Thankful {things I love} Thursday ...

But first ...

coffee {filters}

and

a cupcake {wrapper}

white coffee filters

lots of different coloured

cupcake wrappers

dress makers pattern paper

toile

gathered and layered

and thread together

with ribbon

to make a lovely, long garland ♥

unbleached coffee filters

make wonderful little sketch papers

draw a little Sparrow on the front

create a Sparrow ♥ Seed label for the front

and fill with seeds to create a little garden gift

sparrow love

♥

it's hard to stop at just one ... or two ... or three :-)

~happy Thursday~

xo d