Awwww! What is more peaceful looking than the face of a small child sleeping?! Gardenbug...I love your hairdo...and glasses on the top of the head are a familiar sight. I need two pair, and I am trying to get away from having one on my face and one on my head at the same time...lol. I really can't remember the last time I was happy with a photo of myself, so I completely understand. :-) Early grayness runs in our family. Cousins who were almost entirely gray in their thirties. Your DD has gorgeous dark hair that a little gray can only complement. It is coming in fast! Nice photo of the three men in the family. We have been known to stop strangers and ask to have a photo of all of us together when out and about. I could learn to use the timer on my camera, I suppose. That wild area with the bison and coyotes ....I assume you were walking along a path and they were that close? What a beautiful area! Is that Purple Emperor Sedum you are rooting? Nice root system already and a large cutting! I think I am being too stingy and end up with too small a starter plant. I love mine until it starts getting nicked then I start pulling off leaves. Sometimes there are too many to pull. I am looking into getting Bertram Anderson. I had it once and I don't know what happened to it. It is really really dark and I don't remember it nicking like the PE does. Wish they would come out with a better variegated one. Enjoying the photos G'bug! No grandchildren or pets here, so it is a pleasure.

We have a large table lamp with the Sale Bros mark and the number 1 on the bottom.(I think this refers to style of base). I don't find many sale Bros. as I'm researching. An appraiser explained that the shades are hand carved, not made by mold. I found one like ours @ Ruby Lane.com/all lamps/ page 3. The description says it's a Miller and the base shows this, however the shade is almost identical to ours, just some of the fine detailing is different. Maybe base was switched? I know that ours is all original. Purchased in the 20's for around $5. An appraiser who looked at it several years ago said that thir are lots of Tiffany's around. Because they were more expensive, people held on to them. The cheap ones got lost or tossed. You have a treasure! I'm still sarcing for ino on Sale Bros. Company.

Grandma's can be hard to buy for. Mine sure was. We bought tons of 'stuff' for her over the years. She in later years said just give me something I don't have to feed, walk, dust or worry about keeping safe. And I don't like perfume or clothing that needs dry cleaned. We found she didn't like shirts that went over her head or slippers. We started to give her cookies and dried fruit and candy (which she loved to share with the little kids) We gave her calenders and photos and anything home made she loved. I found out later she just loved the jams I made and only brought them out with guests so she could say her granddaughter made it. She loved an old lumpy pillow my cousin made her when she was ten. And another cousin made her a horrible drawing that she framed and hung over her bed. My sister made her some bread once and again she froze it and served it to guests for a year. My son made her a cutting board one year, she never used it as a cutting board, she didn't want to muss it up, but showed everyone the wonderfull board when ever she had company. At time time of her death we all found the homemade stuff in her home but the other expensive stuff was missing or stuffed in a box. Except the bottle of really yukky bubble bath one of my cousins gave her as a child. She knew he worked a week of mowing lawns etc. to earn it. Maybe the framed art work isn't such a bad idea if could be taken to copy plase and shrunk down to make fidge magents or a keychain or something. I love the idea of a photo on a sweat shirt or tote bag. Maybe fill the bag with her favorite coffee or cookies or ????

I hear you Lori! We had tons of snow during christmas holidays,and the lights on my shrubs disapeared and some of them are just now peeking out from their icy,snowy graves. I expect I'll be able to retrieve them sometime before may. I still have two feet of snow and ice out on my back deck. NO!It sure doesn't feel much like easter around here either. And yes! I am so ready to wave good bye to this terrible winter!