mmmm...tea.

Mud Beach

A trip to the beach morphed my children into "mud monsters" this week. It was quite a terrifying experience.


Who knew the beach could be a bog? This goopy clayish 'sand' provided literally hours of entertainment for my disgusting children. And just a dip or two later . . .



and they were more or less clean.

Let's just keep soaking up these summer days. It is flying all too fast.

Hummingbird warriors, beware.

So this little guy seems to think our hummingbird feeder belongs only to him.

He (or she) guards it for hours at a time, chasing all of the other hummingbirds away. (Ever seen a hummingbird battle? Ever experienced a hummingbird battle inches from your face? You really don't want to.) Kind of stingy behavior I think and not really something I want to encourage on my own front porch, but what am I gonna do? It's a bird eat bird world and I don't wanna get involved. (Did I mention how fierce and CLOSE TO YOUR FACE hummingbird battles can get?)

But, a word of warning to any bird who claims territory here . . . you may well get yours.

So watch your back.

It was another ordinary day here, and each one is so precious. I am so wickedly blessed that I get to live every day with the most extraordinarily lovely people. I can hardly believe my good fortune some days. I dreamed I was a very old woman today. It was a terrifying place to be in and I remember feeling some hopeless frustration in forgetting things I should have known and in not being able to move myself properly or clean myself properly. But there was a comfort with me because my daughters were there, caring for me, loving me still. I can't think about that place and time yet, not really, the end of all my things as it were, but I dreamed of it and everything was alright and that is a comfort because it didn't feel like a fantasy or *just a dream* to me. Things are alright and things will continue to be alright as long as I have the ones I love with me, and they will always be with me, even if not physically.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP-r-_pzqwo&feature=related

Wherein it all revolves around me.

Or perhaps evolves. One never knows.