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My granddaughter and bubbles.
It was a marvelous Mother’s Day.
Soap Bubbles on Mother’s Day
13 Monday May 2013
Posted in All Sparkled Up, grandkids, sunlight
Category Archives: sunlight
Rainy May Day French Beading
06 Monday May 2013
It’s been mostly overcast and rainy for at least two weeks now.
A Rainy day in May.
I’m discovering that the weather greatly affects my pain level, ever since having my spine fused. Despite the pain, I shall redeem this time.
Rain in May, drip drip drip, fall the crystal drops …
Today when the sun peeked out briefly, I stood outside even while the rain was still falling, so desperate to feel sun on my face.
Even the trees are becoming mossy from all the dampness this spring.
Then the clouds moved in again and I tucked back in the darkness of my work space. But places don’t have to stay colorless and uncheered. I got out the beads.
Seed beads, mostly size 11, including Aiko and Delicas, fill a bin with color.
Pearl, crystal and glass beads.
They glistened and captured every speck of light. I didn’t want any light to get away.
Beads in a small condiment dish.
I made petals and leaves and flower centers.
Gold and bronze bead flower centers await petals and assembly.
I use children’s teacups and dishes to hold flower components while I work. Here a child’s teacup holds stamens.
A small child’s teacup holds white stamens.
I made a cardboard insert in a bin to hold my bead bottles upside down so I can see the color of the contents better.
These vintage flower centers belonged to my grandmother. I’m looking forward to using them. Thank you so much, dear sister Donna for sending them!
I will use these vintage flower beads in French Beaded flowers and jewelry.
Even though it is dark and rainy outside and there are no flowers blooming in the window, I have flowers blossoming on the table.
French Beaded flowers
French Beaded flowers in a shoebox await stems and leaves.
French Beaded flowers
Figs
29 Monday Apr 2013
Posted in gardening, Inspirational, nature, sunlight
Sometimes there’s a really brutal winter. The rains are torrential, the winds searing, the snow deep. But then comes the spring.
This will be the biggest fig harvest yet.
The leaves are gorgeous when the sun streams through them.
After winter, always new growth.
And the harvest.
I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the LORD. Psalm 27: 13-14
Always the harvest.
Sunset Beach, North Carolina
25 Saturday Aug 2012
We stayed at Sunset Beach in North Carolina for a week last September. We’ve visited plenty of times over the years but for the first time ever, we saw the kind of sunset for which the island got its name.
There are no words to describe the glorious colors and beauty. It literally took my breath away. Please click each image to see it large. At the top left of the photo will be the original size. Click that number link to see the full size photo. And then imagine this scene filling all the space and sky in front of you, with the constant and rhythmic whoosh as each wave washes ashore, frothed in color.
These photos were all taken the same evening. The colors stretched across the sky, from shades of pink and blue in the east to vibrant oranges and yellows in the west and changed by the minute. I can not believe that the beauty displayed on this earth is by chance, but rather by the artistic hand of the Creator of the Universe.
Early Morning Sun
05 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in nature, photography, sunlight
I don’t know why I got up so early. I didn’t have to drive anyone anywhere.
I don’t know why I looked out the window to the back corner where the tire swing hung instead of getting a cup of coffee and sitting at the table.
I don’t know why I picked up my camera and stumbled out into the cold fog and walked across all that wet dew, soaking my shoes.
But when I got there, I knew why I was there. Some places are like that. You have to get there first, and then you know.
The day is still damp with dew. I will not disturb this morning tire swing.
Please click the photo if you want to see a much larger version.
Sunshine Flecks!
17 Tuesday Jan 2012
The sun was lovely and full today. So my walls were sprinkled with dancing flecks of light.
Mirror Ball in the Sun
Flickering Light
16 Monday Jan 2012
Usually around this time of year I start missing moving light. During spring, summer and fall the sunlight splashes off leaves outside and they are constantly moving light around. Even if I’m not looking outside, my eye catches those dancing specks, like sparks of a warm fire. In winter the light outside is so still that it makes the house seem cold and dark. I miss the flickering!
So that’s when I get out the mirror ball. It is five inches in diameter, covered with mirrors like a mini disco ball. I hang it with a thin cord from the curtain rod in the sunny window. The ball is always gently moving and sometimes I give it a good spin. The squares of light dash all the way across the dining room to the living room walls, filling my space with movement and light.
Even when there isn’t much light, such as the overcast sky today, the ball still spins merrily in the window, reflecting the sky. The room is all sparkled up now.
Mirror Ball in the Window
Red Vine
24 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in Inspirational, nature, photography, sunlight
From the kitchen window, the neighbor’s field was lit with sunset yellow past my shady backyard. I walked to the back of the property to get a better picture of the shade-framed yellows and found that the view wasn’t as nice as from my kitchen window. I looked up to discover the sun lit up one spot in the dark corner – a red vine twined around the old tree, aglow in the sunset. If I had stayed in my kitchen, I never would have seen the flame.
Capturing Sunlight
16 Sunday Oct 2011
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The sun barely enters our north-facing house most of the year, but from October to March, we get a little bit more.
The afternoon rays passed by my desk too swiftly today so I balanced a book on the edge to extend the desk. Then I hung a little plastic chandelier ornament to capture the light for as long as possible. A glass chandelier would splash splinters of sun everywhere but I’m content with my little plastic ornament until I get a glass one made.
