Grace in Small Things #196 of 365

1. Laptops with cameras!

2. Punk, supplier of infinite inexpensive entertainment

3. Judge rolling in the grass. Even after spine surgery, he's still got it!

4. Calling Cambo on his new cell phone he got for his FIFTEENTH birthday!

5. This blue lamp which gives me a little bit of joy everyday when it clicks on at 5pm and clicks off at 11.

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Grace in Small Things #192 of 365

1. Me and My first best friend

2. This swing on Grandma's front porch (looking through the old parlor windows.

3. This painting Lisa is working on in my studio

4. This dog sitting on the bookshelf at the farm.

5. This glass heart

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Love Thursday #12: Grandma turns 98

Grandma turned 98 last week and we had a big party at her farmhouse.

Grandma's greeting party as she comes down the van lift.

Grandma with one of her great grandkids and pooch.

Grace in Small Things #171 of 365

1. This night sky in North Carolina Blue Ridge

2. This ampi-theater where I got to tell my stories on Saturday night

3. Mountain and foothill loot:

4. My loving cousins who loved on my dogs, spic n span'd my refrigerator, organized my studio, all for love. My ten year-old cousin left me her hand-drawn kisses:

5. Welcome home greeting party:

Grace in Small Things #169 of 365

1. creamy goat cheese and pears, cold dry white wine

2. girls at any age sitting around the pool catching up

3. male forearms

4. excellent words whose sounds match their meaning like buzz and zing and sanctimonious

5. bedside tables

Love Thursday #11: Blowing Bubbles

Don't you just love bubble blowing?

But it's hard work...

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Love Thursday #10: Stone Fruit

Keb Mo played on the stereo and a terrific thunderstorm pounded outside while I made this

Stone Fruit Patchwork Bake. Something about baking a simple peach & cherry cobbler with

folks you love in mind--it feels important.

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Love Thursday #9: Grandma at 98

Grandma turns 98 in August. I'm lucky to have her around.

We're throwing her a party at her house which is down the road from the rest home. She and her wheel chair will ride in a van with a lift. Her daddy built the house and many others in the area almost 100 years ago. She's still running things, so we won't be bringing any presents, just a bunch of love.

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Love Thursday #8: Maters

My friends who farm shower me with tomato love: Heirloom, Pineapple, German, Roma, yellow, cherry...

Kristin and Marc Daly's dining room table with bounty from their Albemarle, NC farm.

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Love Thursday #7: Grandma and Grandpa's Farm

Visiting my Dad's parents when I was a kid meant climbing in the hayloft, riding on the back of a tractor, simple meals, and early bedtimes. Years later, I moved into the farmhouse for a time. Even now, I recognize the farm as being the only constant landmark in my life.

The spring pasture and Judge

The now dilapidated barns and silo viewed from the house

viewed from the pasture

The hayfield

rainy day cows

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