summer so far
self-made bed
breakfast
daring one of the UPS trucks to turn down our street
turkey egg
BBQ
last of the spring chard, giving into the heat
anti-pastel campaign in full deployment
feedsack swaddle blankets
garden haul
more vintage baby clothes, because I can’t stop ever.
I spend a lot of time in bed during the day. The little babies, they like to snuggle and not a whole lot else. I have audio books, real books, that big blue cardigan to knit and the wide, wild internet. My bee hive is a straight shot through the window, and ever since Bill built big beautiful screens for our windows, I can leave the window open and listen to them buzz away and back all morning. When it gets up over 90, it smells like honey wax.
In a cloying stroke of luck, a pair of little red finches built a nest in the crook of a drain pipe by the kitchen. When I’m tired of my bees, I can watch both parents scouring the garden beds and bringing all manner of squirmy things home to the ugliest triplet of baby birds I’ve ever seen. Mama Finch’s world clearly turns on that tiny, squawking axis, naturally to my empathy. Those birds aren’t what they’ll be soon, more noticeably than for all the other things of which that is equally true.
Looks like it is shaping up well. Really, really well.
Love. I miss those days. So happy to see you basking in the glow of it all!
I was just raving the other day about bucking the trend for wishy-washy baby colours! Your little one is the most perfect example of why babies should be dressed up like technicolour dreamers, long may it continue.
a pic of the finches, billing and cooing. nice.
I was reading Blueberries for Sal last night, I was struck by the visual echo of your life. Have you read this book? If you haven’t, you must immediately. If you don’t buy it, I will buy it for you.
i soak up every. single. word. you write. i do.
What Melissa said. Catching up here and sending you and your sweet Bill HEAPS of chiggun-doting, (spotted and otherwise) dog-adoring, BABY-CONGRATULATING love. xoxo
I miss your blog! Hope your family is well.
Where are you?
Miss hearing from you guys. Hope all is well. Thinking of your little family makes me smile!