Tuesday, September 24, 2019

lingering...

It's as if summer does not want to leave just yet. We have a glorious day today -- a repeat of yesterday's beauty. A heavenly day of sunshine and gusts of refreshing breezes! All against the backdrop of goldenrod, goldencone and dainty purple asters.

I have an appointment early this morning and it's a good one because it gives me some answers to questions I've had for many months now. I come back in time for a sweet breakfast on the porch. It's warm enough this morning!


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Of course, we have to go out. We just have to! A rerun of grand weather calls for a rerun of bike rides and disc golf games. I leave my camera at home once again, but I do take out my phone for just one quick photo after a particularly good round on the disc golf course!


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I pick up a bouncy girl at school! Once again she has produced a picture she'd been working on of a penguin house and this time I snap her with it, in front of all those purple asters.


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And as the breeze tussles her hair, I have to ask -- isn't this a fine day to go fly a kite?

She is all for it! I ask Ed to help us. My history of kite flying hasn't always produced tangible results.


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We go to a playground with wide spaces for kites. We give it a go.


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It isn't easy. Snowdrop runs with it, mostly in good directions. She surely got the lift!


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... up up, aiming for those "highest heights."


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And when the running wears her out, she puts her energies to the playground. Want to join me, ahah?

He never says no.

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At the farmette again, Ed offers her a bite of the only two pears that the ancient pear tree produced this year. I am surprised that she likes it. Here she is, begging me to help her pick the second one. It's not ripe, Snowdrop. No, it wont get ripe today...


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Inside, she settles into story telling. As always, she mixes up her medium. Things make it into her dollhouse that surely were not intended for it (birthday cards??). Snowdrop, you have a terrific imagination.


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Play with me, gaga.
I am right here, listening to you.
No, I mean sit down right here, pick up some of the characters and make up stories about them!

I smile at that. Snowdrop doesn't hog the spotlight. She likes nothing better than a partner in crime. Right there on the floor beside her.


Evening. Ed plays with cats, I fix supper and look in on my grandgirl in Chicago. Doors and windows wide open. What a day! What a beautiful day!