sing like wildflowers
My full and kooky life as a homeschooling mommy to 2 great kids, raising a child with HLHS (Hypolastic Left Heart Syndrome), coping with depression, following Jesus, and being much too camera happy.
My full and kooky life as a homeschooling mommy to 2 great kids, raising a child with HLHS (Hypolastic Left Heart Syndrome), coping with depression, following Jesus, and being much too camera happy.
17 responses to “A flower for your Friday and a pond view”
Looks like a lovely outing!
Thank you, Liz! We had 2 nature walks this week and it was nice to get out and enjoy the sunshine. Last month we were sick with a cold for most of the month so we were hibernating at home. It feels lovely to get out and get some vitamin D. I hope you are doing well!
You’re welcome, Esther! I’m doing okay. Today, I went to a book signing to flog my wares.
I hope your book signing went well! If I lived closer, I would’ve loved to have went and have you sign my book.
What a nice collection of birds at the pond — it’s lovely. I couldn’t figure out what the flower was; it’s possibly the common mallow (Malva neglecta). The plant on this page looks almost exactly like yours, except you managed to keep your fingers out of your photo!
It was a new pond and very serene there; only a handful of people. It was bit of a drive to get there and at one point I was regretting it. lol. There was a sign that said kids from ages 5-12 can fish for free. I wonder what kind of fish the pond has. If it’s a warmer day or a weekend, there may be more people.
This is so silly but I have to share. I didn’t know the white figure was a bird from afar, because it was so random. I though it was a piece of cloth hung on the branch there; well, lo and behold we get closer to see that it was a bird. One time we saw vultures piking on a brown matted thing by a creek and thought that someone irresponsible threw a piece of carpet in the creek Again, I was wrong. It was a deer carcass. Kids and I still laugh about that blunder.
Thank you for finding out the name of the flower! The creek has an abundance of flowers growing now that it’s warming up.
Esther, it looks like Spring has sprung in California – we will have 70 tomorrow, but with an asterisk (possible severe weather – my first severe storm angst of 2025 – we had a bad tornado today in the western part of the state, with four deaths). Since you’ve had so much rain there lately, please tell me this is the duck pond you and the kids used to go to before, then it dried up?
I wish it was that duck pond! No, this is a different pond. The weather has been pleasant this week so kids and I were out for 2 nature walks. With the daylight savings time, there will be more nature walks. What in the world with the tornado today…so sad for the lives lost. You need relief from weather angst.
Well, I’m glad you found another duck pond. I had thought the other one was a small pond. Yes, you’ll get the whole family out for walks after dinner – that will be nice. I was sitting here responding to you and the sky opened up with torrential rain – I almost flew out of my chair. It was pounding on the side awning, about 20 feet from where I sit. Yes, that’s terrible about the tornado – we have foggy conditions which they say is helping us, but wow – the devastation and deaths and it’s not even tornado season. People were excited for warmer weather tomorrow – almost 70 but that’s not normal and too warm too soon. It’s been “promised” all week. I said to myself “nope, not good” and now severe weather. Sigh.
We really can’t wait for longer days! Autumn and winter were so gloomy here and we were in a funk from all the medical stuff. So the brighter and longer days will boost our moods and make us more active.
That is just wild! How the weather is fine one moment and torrential rain the next. What do you do when you’re out?! I know you are going to savor all the warm days of spring!!
Tomorrow is the day, so we slowly creep toward more and more daylight. We need the sunlight to boost our moods. I have a high school friend that lives near Rochester, New York and her doctor told her that is the place in the U.S. with the least amount of sunlight per year so she is on Vitamin D because of it – she told me most people that live there are. Yes, I was sitting here and the rain was pelting down so hard. We have another all-day rain on Wednesday with two inches of rain expected. This is why I adjusted my walking goal steps – we had fog every day last week, including today before the storm. Then everything is soaking wet. I don’t plan anything without checking multiple weather sites first – if I’m out on a trail far from the car, I always have an emergency poncho with me.
Emergency poncho is a great idea! That’re more compact and convenient to carry than an umbrella.
The extra sunlight is a nice change from the dreary winter days. But we have been getting warm temps already! I am low on vitamin D and iron, so the doctor suggested I take those supplements, which I am taking now. Thankfully, the pills are small.
Yes, I always have one on me – they have the small ones that fold up to almost nothing to tuck into a pocket, but they are thin plastic and tend to stick together and take a while to unfold them because of that. I always take a clean garbage bag folded up when I am walking in the Summer and don’t have on a coat, but I usually have my digital compact camera in my fanny pack and so I can wrap it around the fanny pack to keep it dry. I used to carry a compact umbrella, but they fold up so small, that it takes forever to open them and fold out all the “ribs” to open it up and you can get soaked in that time. I hope the vitamin D and iron help you out … you’re getting a lot of heat there right now … it is making the news every day with your heat wave.
That looks like a lovely place for a spring nature walk!
It was a quiet and peaceful place to walk around! It would have been better if there were more people and if it wasn’t so secluded. I’ll have to take Chris with us next time.
So calming.
Thank you!!