Sunflowers

This morning Kate and her friend Hayley played in a sunflower field up north in Celina. 
These girls will someday be in school together, so it is neat to see a friendship blooming.

"Sunflowers"
by Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Yellow faces 

round 

as plates; 
giants growing 
at the gate. 
Golden guards 
saluting 
sky; 
garden kings 
with chocolate eyes.










The sunflowers were definitely on their last leg, so I have made a mental note to go earlier next year!

I'm sad.

All of my blog pictures from Friday and back are gone. I was deleting albums from Picassa to clear them off my Google+ profile, and I didn't realize one of those albums contained every single picture from my blog. I was even on the lookout for those, and I completely missed them. I'm sure I just clicked "OK" when it asked me if I was SURE I wanted to delete the album. Good grief.

It'll take time, but I can rebuild most of it. Most of the 365 posts will be easy to fix. The others will be a bit harder since I don't remember what pictures I posted. It takes time to resize images, and do the pretty, rounded corners. There may be a few images that are gone for good.

196/365 (plus a few extras)

{daddy time}
I love this shot...such a sweet connection between daddy and daughter.
I love the Bandaid on her finger, too! (She had her finger pricked at the doctor today.)

Here are a few more shots I took today... felt like Caroline hasn't gotten her share of photos lately!





Kate with her new "color wonder" markers... GREAT invention! (And ironic that I'm posting in all black and white today!)

I was surprised to see her matching up the right color caps to the markers.