Homes...

What makes a home?

Security.

  Comfort.

Surrounded by your element.

Home is where your heart is. 

After The Nightmare...

of computer redoing, I am ready for another subject...how about spring?  Marcy is loving her new birthday camera and has loads from which to choose.

Introducing

spring

by Marcy.

For those of you still hip-deep in snow,

spring is one day closer.

My Day...

was spent trying to get my email straightened out. My trouble began when Live Mail updated to 2011.  No links within my emails worked.

It  has been a job, and I said tiddleywinks a few times but I am on another server...minus my contact list!

I am going to browse my blogs and hopefully get reconnected with every one.  Wish me luck.

I Knew...

the storm was coming, my thumb and my wrist has warned me.  "I feel it coming in the air tonight, oh, Lawd,"

It had been a dreary afternoon with no sun. The air, heavy with moisture, kept switching between drizzling rain and fog.

The perfect evening to wrap yourself in a warm quilt and read by lamp light, but the aching of my natural weather forecasters didn't allow it.

I woke to a magical storm around midnight.  The thunder boomed and lightening danced across the sky.  The rain plummeted to the ground and I could hear the dry creeks come to life, roaring to the night sky, we are full.

The only thing missing was a musical accompaniment to the grandeur that was the storm.

Through Marcy's Eyes...

You may remember Marcy's camera died.

Our gift to her is a new camera for her birthday.

Marcy is my oldest sister

and delights us with her photos.

The mineral block on a rock drill core.

Spring is coming.

Marcy sees things I may never notice.

Her perceptions are fascinating

Her subjects are extraordinary.

Thank you, Marcy, for fixing my lunch,

for canning the produce,

for loving us all,

and for the great pictures.

Happy Birthday, Marcy!

Strange Sounds...

as though someone was knocking.  They were but not at the door.  It took me a while to locate the visitor.

Someone or something was hammering metal.

I found the source.

I am standing in the bath tub, contorting to get this picture out the screened window.  The pipe is a wood stove pipe from the basement.  I guess the wood pecker thought it would make a wonderful house. This pipe is straight with the house but the way I had to curl and shoot, didn't show up very well.  The rocks on the outside of the house were in the way, too.

When I could stretch no more,

 I decided to try to sneak up on it outside.  I was caught and the wood pecker flew to the safety of the trees.

Finally...I got a good one.

Andrew, Rock Star...

Many of you have heard me brag of Andrew's two year journey of music.  No teachers, only hard work.  He watches videos, watches the hands, hears the music and plays it.  He has approached this with a tenacity that made us proud. (He shows the same devotion to foot ball.)  His music window was open and the music poured in.

Recently at school they had a talent show and Andrew signed up.  He practiced until our heads were echoing with the strains of electric guitar and Marshall amps

. 

Andrew has been jamming with some folks his mom and aunt's age.  Had the pleasure of playing a Gibson SG (which this family cannot afford).  Gibson SG created a confidant musically driven young man.

He waited nervously with the other competitors.

The talent was great and varied.

Dancers, singers, musicians of all ages through out the high school had signed up.

Time at last to set up.

His adult friend allowed him to use his Gibson SG.

Andrew warmed the audience with a few blues licks of his own,

then jumped into "You Shook Me All Night Long"

He Rocked The House!!!

His love of music was apparent.

his skills won the crowd,

and the musical Andrew wowed the audience.

Andrew was moving so fast, it was hard to get a picture.

As the crowd, teachers and students alike, gave a standing ovation, it was amazing.   To know Andrew was good, not just because his family thought so but because the entire school, students and teachers, also thought he was good.

The teachers were in awe...is this the Andrew that sits quietly in class and never causes a bit of trouble? 

The students voted for their favorite of all the good talent that was there.  At the end of the day, Andrew had won!

Talk about a confidence builder!

Andrew's face book friends have multiplied.

Now they know another side of Andrew...the wild side.

There is the quiet student,

the foot ball player,

and now a rock star!!

Wonder if it's gonna run in the family.

Krazy Ki Kapers

Exploring the pasture

visiting with a horse

splashing through the creek

after falling in the water

choosing a stick

wrestling

chewing a stick

In any place, it is difficult to catch this girl, still,

or with her feet on the ground!

Monday Morning's Sky

Between the earth quake and the storms, I wanted to look outside early this morning.  I knew the water was high but it was still dark.  I could hear the creeks rolling.

The morning soon lightened the sky but  the moon was still shining.  I love early morning before the roosters wake up and things are still quiet...except this morning the water was roaring in the valley.

Ki wasn't sure what to think of all this water, you can see where it was by the debris but just before daylight, the water was already receding.  This afternoon, the water was clear.

After all the rain we've had, the fog was thick on the way to work.   The sun tried it's best to burn the fog away.  It succeeded before noon but the cooler air blowing, reminded me that spring is not completley here.