favourite photo: for Thursday photo day (a bit late as usual) at CaC - difficult choice to choose from the past four months plus but I am drawn back to this spring composition photo which Molly just reminded me of when she found the "our house" set at my flickr
Have a great weekend and, as always, angels be with you.

Hands: This is my hand holding treasures. I love to pick up things I see along the path - be it our farm road, or a beach by some beloved ocean. The words - speak for themselves.
photo Thursday at CaC

SPRING: To me spring is lots about new life. It's about waiting for green - a colour I love. It's about rebirth. Pussy willows represent all of these things. It will be a few weeks probably until the trees actually have green leaves but as we drive creekside I can imagine, or maybe really see, a shimmering of green by those trees. Regardless of how many more times it will snow in the next days, how many more hours before the water runs in the creek (it's there but frozen right now), I know the green will return. These pussy willows are the promise for that.

My photo for create a connection Thursday photo day.

Thursday, photo day (for CaC) - OK, OK - I know it's Saturday but I just can't keep up here. AND I want SO MUCH, SO VERY,VERY MUCH, because I love the idea to make a spirit doll, BUT it may not happen for a few Sundays. What can I do? I am trying hugely to not stress so much, so maybe I just need to get things done when I can. Hmmm, maybe I can make today's project quickly, and have it done for next Saturday. It's a dream jar. I need one of those.

For photo Thursday I've taken a photo, or a couple, of something I treasure. It is this beautiful turquoise bowl which our niece, god-child, made for us for Christmas a couple of years ago. DH gave me what-not about the photo of the back. I had to. It's beautiful too and part of why I treasure this piece. It has TW's initials. I'm so proud that she has my name for her middle name. In some waays TW and I are very alike. In some ways we are very different. We both love blue and we are both artistic. She's frustrated that she doesn't have time now to be creative much but she's got a full time job as a prison guard and is also starting a new (reasonably) relationship. My prayers are with her especially on that. We love each other very much and are very good friends.

Laughter - the best medicine. The theme for this week's photo Thursday, part of Create a Connection, is laughter.

I love laughter. I wish I could do it more often. These are photos of our daughter (Cat) when she was younger, at least 10 years younger. She loved to make people laugh and to be entertaining. Now it takes an effort to laugh with teenage her. Of course she hates being laughed at.

I love being tickled, unless I'm feeling really low. I love watching "funny" on the television or at the theatre. I think one of my faves from a time back was Victor Borge. My entire family particularly liked when he switched the next number. Instead of wonderful, something was twoderful and so on. I think my dad has a video. We should view that again sometime.

Thanks for (five) this choice. It makes me happy just thinking about it.

tickles for(five) all.