1. It isn't Christmas yet, but then we all know the real Christmas didn't happen in December anyway. We should all celebrate Christ's birth, death and resurrection every day! I just had to share this. I was inspired by Jackie Junkboat Travels's visit to Sainte-Marie...see her post HERE. It's a wonderful historic site in Ontario with so much to offer from that early time, much of it archeological treasures! Her sharing of the Huron Carol (written in French and Wendat languages originally) made me want to post it myself, so here it is via You Tube, and also the translation. Hope you find it as beautiful as I did:
Here is the translation:
Huron Carol
2. On Sallie's A Full Time Life last week she did a wonderful post of Eugene street sights...see that HERE. But what I wanted to share was this very wonderful quote she posted from Picture Your Parks magazine about the Eugene, OR parks (and since we are moving not too terribly far from Eugene, this attitude about our pollinators made me very happy!):
"As a natural replacement to pesticide use in the beautiful hanging baskets downtown, the City of Eugene has hired Ladybugs, Green Lacewings, and Praying Mantis to control aphids and spider mites. Over the course of the summer, nearly 1.5 million beneficial insects will help us manage harmful pests without hurting our critical bee population. Time and again, we are reminded that nature knows best!"
3. I had such an interesting "accidental" borrow...I buy a lot of used books from Abebooks.com and am always so happy when I can get "near fine" and "very good" condition books for just a few dollars, and I usually also get the "no shipping" books as well. One book I recently purchased that I decided to read contained an unexpected surprise! I opened the pages and about one and a half chapters in was a book mark, and this sweet note:
" Feb 25, 2014....Mom, You were sawing logs when I came. Didn't want to wake you. I'll be back tomorrow with a surprise for lunch....Karen"
I felt like I had intruded on such a sweet, private moment between mother and daughter. I wondered, was Mom in a nursing home or Care Center, or her own home; I wondered why the bookmark and note were so close to the front of the book...did she never finish it? Did she not like it; did she pass away before she could read again? Or did she finish the book and stick the bookmark and precious note back inside the book just "wherever" for safe keeping. Two years later, I was sent the book from a used book store affiliated with Abebooks. I wonder how long the shop had it...soon after the Feb 25, 2014 date, or just recently? I will never know the answer to any of these questions. But I caught a glimpse of these two women in a brief moment of their lives through that note, and felt so close to them.
One rarely finds anything in the leaves of a book, but it does happen...sometimes Valentines and love letters are found, sometimes grocery lists....who knows. But, that tiny snippet of someone else's life is a treasure!
4. Now for something someone "borrowed" from us....our two trash cans were stolen this past week! We were gone from home a mere three hours one morning and when we returned someone had taken both the trash can and the recycling bin from our yard! Now, unless you have an account with RAD, how would you use their trash cans? So, we are surmising that perhaps some yard workers didn't have enough containers to put their weeds and brush in, and they took them for that reason! That was the only thing we could figure out! We called the company and they happily replaced them....said having their trash cans stolen was really unusual! Of course, we'd be the lucky ones! :-(
5. One night as the moon began to rise I thought how it looked like a huge egg in it's "waning" state, and decided it would be an interesting thing to shoot. We always go for the full moon, or the crescent, and you rarely see shots of the waning moon.
" Feb 25, 2014....Mom, You were sawing logs when I came. Didn't want to wake you. I'll be back tomorrow with a surprise for lunch....Karen"
I felt like I had intruded on such a sweet, private moment between mother and daughter. I wondered, was Mom in a nursing home or Care Center, or her own home; I wondered why the bookmark and note were so close to the front of the book...did she never finish it? Did she not like it; did she pass away before she could read again? Or did she finish the book and stick the bookmark and precious note back inside the book just "wherever" for safe keeping. Two years later, I was sent the book from a used book store affiliated with Abebooks. I wonder how long the shop had it...soon after the Feb 25, 2014 date, or just recently? I will never know the answer to any of these questions. But I caught a glimpse of these two women in a brief moment of their lives through that note, and felt so close to them.
One rarely finds anything in the leaves of a book, but it does happen...sometimes Valentines and love letters are found, sometimes grocery lists....who knows. But, that tiny snippet of someone else's life is a treasure!
4. Now for something someone "borrowed" from us....our two trash cans were stolen this past week! We were gone from home a mere three hours one morning and when we returned someone had taken both the trash can and the recycling bin from our yard! Now, unless you have an account with RAD, how would you use their trash cans? So, we are surmising that perhaps some yard workers didn't have enough containers to put their weeds and brush in, and they took them for that reason! That was the only thing we could figure out! We called the company and they happily replaced them....said having their trash cans stolen was really unusual! Of course, we'd be the lucky ones! :-(
5. One night as the moon began to rise I thought how it looked like a huge egg in it's "waning" state, and decided it would be an interesting thing to shoot. We always go for the full moon, or the crescent, and you rarely see shots of the waning moon.
