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I am not quite sure how I feel about Spring Break this year.  Last year, we hadn't even moved to the property and we had just started the clean up and remodel.  We were excited and full of energy and dreams!  I sometimes have to pause and remember how far we have come in a year's time.  We have put in so much hard work and it has been....difficult.  Worth it but not something I am sure I could ever repeat. This Spring Break was essentially yard work.  We have been working on getting the garden structure in and then we will shape and add to it in the future.  I felt a sense of urgency to get started on the yard.  It was too much of a clean slate and knowing how long gardens take to mature, I wanted to get shrubs and trees planted.  I wanted to see the start of things to come.  In the same sense that a picture on the wall makes a house feel like a home, a garden makes a yard feel like home to me.   It was slow going this week....

First, the sky report.  I never knew how much I loved Spring weather.  Has it always looked like this in the big wonderful sky?  I guess so, only my Silverloop view was blocked by tall trees and a steep hillside.  I only saw directly overhead and between the trees.  (Hmm, this could be a very spiritual parallel).  I appreciated what I did see so very much but this THIS takes my breath away. Funny, because both the older girls have cameras so now I am vying for a position in the doorwell with little photographers snapping pictures all around.   A friend told me this this week:   " God gave you the gift of beauty - creating it, seeing it. You share it with the rest of us and we are reminded to stop our busy ness and look around, look up. I know that I have never seen beauty the same way you see it. I don’t see the layers of detail and beauty that your felting work captures. But your pictures, your work, they keep me trying to see it, to look fo...