Moving to the south from the temperate California climate, which lacks "summertime", I was amazed to see these dancing stars, and even more awed to sweep them into my hands and hold an etherial light in a jelly jar with holes. A great southern tradition to indoctrinate me home. Thanks for bringing back her poem Michael, and thanks Rebecca for reminding me of roots.

Hi everyone, quickly checking in here before I go put on my makeup (which will probably slide off my face before I even get from the motor home to my car!) LOL I'm off to meet two of my cousins for lunch in a nearby town--sort of a halfway point for all of us. Kathleen, they don't let you take pics inside the store. That would probably ruin the next book she will be putting out! LOL I sure wanted to tho--all the tables were "over the top". No way could you leave the centerpieces on the table and have a conversation during the meal. But they were so fun to see, and of course I was looking at the chargers, plates, stemware, silverware as well as the centerpieces. Don't think my SIL and niece understood why I was so interested in the tables--even though I had shown them some pics on my photobucket album and told them we do tablescapes and vignettes between holidays. The building has such high ceilings that they were able to put huge arrangements on top of hutches too--just all very fun to see. Yesterday was a visit to the little town of Weston which is filled with quilting, antique and craft type stores in really old building too. I kept looking at the tin ceilings, architectural details, etc. as well as the dishes and crafts. I found a unique rose plate at a great price for my collection. Funny part was that when I showed it to my nieces last night, my great niece said "it looks like a smiley face" and sure enough it does! I'll show you what I mean when I get to post pics. LOL Sure makes me happy to find all of you posting when I sign on here. DH paid for me to have WiFi here at the rv park while he is gone this week. Guess he realizes how "addicted" I am to this site and all of you! LOL Have a great day, and I'll catch you later. Luvs

My grandfather was a paper hanger. Which means my crafty grandmother had a constant source of supply of wallpaper. It was a given that any gift you got from her would be wrapped in wallpaper samples. She used WP for shelf liners, and all kinds of other things, too. It's just paper, after all (at least at that time it was--no 'pre-paste' on it to attract little nasties to live in the drawer with your undies--LOL)

After ice pellets and freezing rain, taking down a bunch of power poles ... ... there's more snow today, and it's going cross-ways the windows. A few days ago when it was going across, some closer to horizontally, I said that I didn't plan to go out, anyway. But today there was to be a discussion group of usually 8 or 10, meeting at church to discuss articles in our denomination's magazine ... and I was to lead. Figured I'd be a wimp and wear my hood. So - here I am, talking to you folks, as well. 'Sno joke, folks: it's SUPPOSED to be SPRING! Even this far north (and I am farther south than some of you in the northern prairie states, being slightly north of Detroit, about even with Port Huron). ole joyful