Why did the girl roll down the hill?

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill,
Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
~ Rupert Brooke

Because it was covered in clover and sunshine and soft grass.
Because it's fun.
Because.

21 to 0

We picked 21 cherry tomatoes today.

Not one of them made it home.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

~ Lewis Grizzard

Hiking

Hello Dragonfly

One sunny afternoon at the cottage Em called out that she had spotted a dragonfly exoskeleton. Cool but not exactly news as there are plenty around the cottage this time of year and we already had a collection of exoskeletons amassed on the makeshift nature table in the cottage.
We misheard her though.
What she found was a dragonfly actually emerging from his exoskeleton. Very cool. Turns out a few friends had joined him on the nearby rocks and all were in different stages of emerging. And so we spent a while watching as they unfolded themselves from their nymph bodies, stretched, pumped up their wings, warmed themselves in the sun and then took flight for the very first time.

Dock Shots