Saturday, March 26, 2022

Andie's band's first album cover Art by Julie 

Banana peel and Broken glass

Candy wrappers and Cars, so we went into the woods

Doe, a Deer, no, three!

Endearing comments followed a few shared photos

Geese

Happy Birthday to Logan

I kinda felt like I was wandering... 40days and counting... after 40 years of wandering. 

Misty is, indeed, a wonderful guide

Nature is always there for us when we remember to seek it

Overlook the trash. Pay attention to nature instead

Plastic forks and water bottles strewn

Quite a Quiet long walk after all

Rusted broken oil barrel

Staying in the moment, even Skunk cabbage can be beautiful

Tires, TVs, and Toys

Ukrainian family will receieveby Julie

Violet I've had for a long time, finally bloomed...

"Why don't You break my heart 'til it moves my hands and feet/ For the hopeless and the broken

For the ones that don't know that You love them / Bring Your love to life inside of me." ~

"Love Come to Life" by Big Daddy Weave

eXhausted in some ways, uplifted in others.

You don't have to pick it all up 

Zen in the letting go

The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen

Adam

Bon voyage...

Candy Hearts ~ 11 Mr. Goodbar ~ 12 Chloe

Della Lee

Enigmatic look and left the room without another word. 269

Feathery Frost on her windowpane p. 1

Gobstoppers p. 1 SweeTarts ~ Chapter 2

Helena --> Marlena 

"I have books" p. 236

Josey, Jake, Jawbreakers ~ 8 Snow Candy ~ 9

Kinda feels like I missed so much the first time I read it

Lemon Drops ~ 5 Sour Patch ~ 6 Sugar Daddy ~ 7 Life Savers ~ 13

Mellowcreme Pumpkins ~ Chapter 10

Now and Later ~ 14

Oldsey, Oldgret

"Powers and Passion can make eggs fry in their cartons." ~ Sugar Queen

"Sugar Queen...offers sincere relationship insight. It's like a dessert you'd scorn for being too sweet but would devour anyway." ~ Entertainment Weekly source

Rock Candy (3) Sno Caps (4) Rawley Pelham

Separately, they were just objects waiting for a purpose. 236

Together, they were parts of a whole. 236

"...Uses magic to captivating effect. Fans of Garden Spells will want this."

~ Library Journal - Rebecca Kelm source

Video! How cool is this?! click here

"What if it's Della Lee's ghost in my closet?" 266

eXpression anXious p. 239 

"You go, I go" (263).

Zelda and George Cramdon

The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen

"Am I interrupting something?" p. 39

"Blending golds and tangerines" p. 33

Change it yourself!

Don't wait for the world to change,

Emily, change it yourself p. 27

Forgive him because it had been her fault for putting her happiness in the hands of someone else." p. 82

Gauzy remnants of what had once been

"He look so alive, shining with [the morning sun] or "Haloed in porch light." p. 39

He'd made her feel true Happiness... How could she not have succumbed to it?"

"I guess I'm confused." Emily p. 41 "I like seeing the possibilities of what's beyond..." Win p. 178

Julia: "Just let me turn off the stove."

Kind of smell that brought people home."

Love that came out of it Lilacs

"Making sense of at least one thing here would be nice." p. 144 3/1/22

Newspaper clipping kept in my autographed copy

"Only room in the house that does that..." 

"Powdered sugar flowing like pollen in the wind." p. 44

Quite the perfect cake for special 2010 birthday

Recipe I used to create my first ever Hummingbird cake 

"Tall enough to see tomorrow." p

"Universal truth... how we see the world changes all the time. It depends on our mood." p. 122

Vance asked incredulously." p.243

Wallpaper background postcard

"eXcitment of lemon zest." :)

"You can tell me that...your feelings are no different..." p. 239

no Z so..."A dusting of magic, the aroma of sugary cakes swirling through the breeZe, and a girl who unwittingly brings change to a town of misfits make for a sweet summer story filled with hope and forgiveness."--Beth Hoffman, author of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen

"A suitcase and a fedora. And Apparently a frying pan..." p. 82

Bull's eye glass on either side of it... p. 85

"Coffee, she'd discovered,  was tied to all sorts of memories,  different for each person... Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it." p. 193

Drowsy, languid kind of way. p. 121

Ephermeral Expectations p. 121

"Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take.  But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map." p. 242

"Giddiness felt like her skin, her whole self, was stretching into a smile." p. 79

"Happiness is a risk. If you're not a little scared, then you're not doing it right." p. 238

"I remember going out there I was a boy and lying under [hickory tree] and staring up at the canopy... There was a uneasy symmetry to them. Their chaos was given structure by the landscaper, but that structure was always threatened by their own wild nature. I decided landscaping was like lion taming..." p. 199.

Justification for finally giving in and saying yes." p. 156

 Kinetic. A force. People seemed unconsciously drawn to him. p.145

Love Potion : Chapter Eleven / Lost and Found: Chapter Fourteen

Magic Man : Chapter Ten

Now she's talking Nonsense. 'I haven't talked Nonsense a day in my life!' Agatha barked." p.133

"Over the years, it had been patched, re-stuffed and re-stitched, then finally covered with a blanket to hide the grape jelly and coffee stains." p. 135

Peach 🍑 tree 🌳 pie 🥧 

 source: Elephant Journal 2014

"Quick, tell me what kind of coffee you want right now." 😀 p.123

Root Systems: Chapter Nine

Strange Seductions : Chapter Twelve

"There was no such thing as coincidence. " ~ Agatha Osgood

Unable to leave footprints for days, as if her feet weren't quite touching the ground."

Vehemence in her Voice p. 143

"When I bleed, it's sweet. Honeybees fly right to me." p.144

eXasperating relationships with their families... 144

"You can grow where you're planted." p.197  

Zoe Life: This heavenly form of life needs to begin within our soul today: “life; referring to the principle of life in the spirit..."  source - many more details next blog post