A late spring stroll...

Today was an absolutely beautiful day!  The weather was so perfect, the right combination of warmth, sun and a gentle breeze.  After our long winter, this day was a true gift from above.  So many times today, I said a small prayer of 'thanks' for this long awaited weather.

This tree smells sweet and lovely and wonderful.  I wish I could bottle up this smell and use it as  perfume.  Another gift of today, getting to smell this tree in full bloom one more time before we move.  Good thing we are moving to a farm with an orchard-- I now can't imagine spring without the aroma of fruit blossoms.

Goodnight barn!

Here are the twin boys.  Notice how they are already turning more white and less brown.

 

This little guy is still pretty dark but he is starting to lighten up too! 

 Bed night snack.

 

I'll miss the views of this place.  Everywhere I look, there is beauty. 

Eggs found in the small barn on our walk.  So clean.  I wonder how fresh they are?  We'll see at breakfast! 

 

 

Many of my readers know that we all read, "Little House in the Big Woods" (by Laura Ingalls Wilder) two winters ago and started, "Little House on the Prairie" this last winter.  In some ways, I feel like we are following in the Ingalls footsteps.  After living three years in this log home in the woods, we are moving to a new home on the prairie.   I find comfort in her words, that were written so long ago.  Another gift.

 

 

“The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks