Nature Faves

Fridays mean finding five faves from the past week!

It's great to reflect back and find things, moments or people that helped make the week special.

Won't you join us?? Just link up at Susanne's and start counting your blessings...or at least five!

Mine revolve around nature, for the most part.  It was a wonderful week that seemed to fly by!  The weather has been very nice and spring is well under way!  The month of May is so pretty in eastern New York State.

Purple Iris in side yard
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• PURPLE IRISES!  Our irises are blooming early this year! Usually these don't open until the end of May/beginning of June.  My side yard, up against the house, has some nice irises as well as the front flower bed.  Even my peonies are almost open! I love all my spring perennials....and they are so easy to maintain! Just trim back in the autumn months and enjoy the blooms during the late spring! Flowers are always a fave.......

Claire and Dave planting the tree
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My pear tree!
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• MOTHER'S DAY!  I had such a  relaxing Sunday.  I loved every minute. From breakfast on the deck, to church where we heard an excellent sermon on our new sermon series "Forbidden" a six-part series on temptations people face. Sunday's was tempations that women face. After church we enjoyed a delicious lunch at our fave Pakistani restaurant in town for northern Indian food, and then we went home to change and head over to a local mini-golf and ice cream place.  We had so much fun and the only thing missing was my oldest daughter who was still at college studying for her last 2 final exams.  After a yummy dish of coconut chocolate ice cream, we headed back to the house where I got to relax on the deck.  The pictures above show my mother's day gift that my 13 yr old chose:  a pear tree for the backyard.  She even wanted to help plant it so Dave taught her how...she is such an "acts of service" girl :) Being out side for most of the day, enjoying God's creation is always a fave...... 

the reading and social gathering corner of our deck
May 2012

• READING AND RELAXING!  I got to spend the late afternoon and early evening on the deck just reading and relaxing.  Courtney sent me a FB message saying happy mother's day (this is how college kids love to communicate!) and that was special to me.  I opened up my cards from Claire and Dave and just had a relaxing time outside.....always a fave!

Cilantro!
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• CILANTRO!  the seeds I planted about 2 weekends ago have finally started growing!  Cilantro is excellent with Mexican style foods and is great to use in marinades for grilled chicken, pork, and steak. It has a sweet zing to it.....fresh herbs from my own pots is always a fave.

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April 2011

• HOME FOR THE SUMMER!  Our oldest daughter, Courtney, is home from Gordon College for the summer.  She arrived home on Tuesday evening and has been unpacking ever since! She said the semester was tough. She takes 16 credits each semester and worked a part time job at various times throughout the semester.  We don't have her grades/GPA yet but she did say her Art Portfolio review went well and she did well on her final project.  Her goal now is to try to get a summer job.  It's tough in our area for teens who don't go to to college in the area because places don't usually hire them if they have to leave again in August. We are praying this weekend that she can find something!  At any rate, it is great to have my first born daughter back home where I can cook her favorite foods, laugh with her, listen to music with her and talk about awesome books with her. We've already been to the library once one evening this week!  And she has changed so much!!  I'll be doing a post about the new way our relationship has turned....from little girl to teen to emergent adult....I have loved each stage and I am especially enjoying our talks as we are more like friends now...something I never really felt with my own mother.  And we have very similar tastes in clothing I am finding out!  Hanging out with my eldest girl is always a fave.....

So that's some faves in this sweet spring time weather.........


I hope you all have wonderful plans for the weekend.....a time to refresh, recharge and relax!


HAPPY WEEKEND!!