I am thankful for:
Apples, avocado, autumn, animals, America, Annika, art
Brent, babies, bread, beach, butter, blankets, bikes, body, birds, bed
Cats, cars, cellos, carrots, chickens, Christ
Dishes, dancing
Elsa, Easter, evergreens, empathy, elephants
Frogs, friends, Frodo, forever, family, forest, flowers, foxes, fabric, faith, food
Green, galoshes, grandparents, giving, guitar
Home, heaven, hope, holidays, Heather, horses, happy
Irises
Joshua, jumping, joy, Jesus
Kate, kisses, kids
Lemons, life, Lara, lakes
Milo, monkeys, mushrooms, moon, meadows, mom, millennium, mountains, music, mentors
Nostalgia, nectarines, Nutella
Oliver, owls, ocean, outside
Popcorn, pillows, piano, paths, people
Quail, quiche
Rest, resurrection, rivers, running
Sky, summer, spring, Savior, squirrels, sun, skiing, sad, sleep
Toby, Tara, turtles, time, temples, trees
Umbrellas
Vegetables
Water, whales, walnuts, winter, weather
Xylophones
Yellow, yarn
Zippers
Happy Thanksgiving!
4.3.12
How is it that we've lived in the Portland area for almost 5 years and still haven't been to every botanical garden or park in the area? Well we had another day or two off for spring break (since we had over two weeks total!), so we had the chance to fit in a couple of new adventures. They were cold and rainy adventures...but adventures, nonetheless.
taking a little amble along the swollen Johnson Creek
the bridge was out since the water was so high...we'll have to come finish this walk another time
THANKFULLY they warned us...these guys can get your shoes rather sticky
even though the weather felt like winter, the spring flowers were out in abundance. Here we have the lovely Camilla.
Hellbore...ugly name, but one of my favorite shade-lovely flowers (I meant to write shade-loving, but I guess they are shade-lovely too)...and one of the only actual flowers I've ever seen that comes in a shade of green.
Ollie, smiling with his eyes again
and last of all, the lovely Trillium...which was almost Elsa's middle name.
I like nature names. Trillium, Camilla, Salal, Azalea...hmm, I wonder which of these names are on our baby short list? Definitely NOT Hellbore.
...or frosty fungi.
...or small wonders.
Nevermind. I have more than two things to post about for December. I was looking through our pictures and noticed that Brent took some AMAZING mushroom pictures on his daily walk through the woods near our house. I have got to give credit to Brent's eye for the amazing little things in life. And how I appreciate that so much.
12.9.12
This is pretty much what winter looks like here: fog rising off the river, mushrooms sprouting up everywhere, and an occasional frost covering all the green things.
Maybe once or twice we get snow. So far this year, we've had two days where snow was forecasted. And it was a big disappointment! Oh sure, it snowed up where the altitude was a teensy bit higher (like at our old house), but down by the river we just didn't get snow.
Other than fog and frost, we get rain.
jogging up on the frost covered plateau
the trail back home...
