-Walt Whitman

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” 
-Walt Whitman

Here Comes the Sun

○•°Little Darling,
I feel the ice is finally melting.
Little Darling,
It seems like years since you've been here.
   \|/ ~Here comes the sun.
 >-0-< ~~Here comes the sun.
   /|\ ~~~and I say,  ♡It's alright..    

○•°○•°♡It's alright...

Sweet Blessings

Artist ~ Mark Keathley

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"Grace comes into the soul, 
as the morning sun into the world; 
first a dawning, then a light; 
and at last the sun in his full
and excellent brightness.”
~Thomas Adams~

The Glory of Gardening

"Doesn't Take Much" by Michael Traveler

Arbor Swing at My Mom & Dad's  kvg

It doesn't take much
to ease my soul
some food on the table
a spot to rest my bones
a small log fire to warm my toes
just a space to call my own
sprinkle in the people I love
and that's my recipe for home

~ poem "Doesn't Take Much" by Michael Traveler, author of "Postcards from the Backroads"

"A World of Wonder" by Michael Traveler

the light from above breaks through the clouds dark and hanging now back lit by glowing fingers as if the hand of God is reaching down to bless the ground from my window this I see everything He has made for me the cattle grazing heaven's light displaying a world of wonder glowing and sublime magical and mine

~ poem "A World of Wonder" by Michael Traveler, author of Postcards from the Past .https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=730512483646099&set=pb.276064969090855.-2207520000.1395782120.&type=3&theater)

photo by Igor Zenin   http://www.redbubble.com/people/izenin

Keep Calm and Enjoy the Rain

 It's an annual rite of passage.  As predictable as Ash Wednesday following Mardi Gras Day.  Springtime in New Orleans means rain, rain and “oh did I tell you that it rains a lot here in the spring”?
It began raining that night and was still drizzling now nearly 24 hours later.  We received over 6 inches of rain on that 28^th day of March 2014. My decision to purchase a Tahoe is affirmed by days like this.  I was reminded of this as I inched my way through streets that had become makeshift canals.  Other more practical cars were casualties of the day.  Gas efficient litter waiting for the receding waters to be towed. One or 5 days a year, I am proud of my decision to drive a gas guzzler that can serve as a rescue vehicle and ride high above the water line that the day draws on the streets.In South East Louisiana rain is a sure thing, like cayenne is red and the dome is super.  

The local news reports that “the Mayor has mandated amnesty for citizens illegally parked on neutral grounds and sidewalks along previously flooded thoroughfares throughout the crescent city”.  

Yes, downpours and street flooding is expected. We are not shocked when they happen with spring thunderstorms.
I take days with rain in stride.  Be Calm and Enjoy the rain.             

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