Borrowed Nikon - Thank you Rachel!

My dear friend Rachel let me borrow an extra Nikon SLR ( single lens reflex = great quality camera) she has! I love it. I will never go back to a small digital camera! I really love taking pictures and with the Nikon wow the quality immediately improves(even for a novice)!

I love creating and taking pictures feeds that love of mine! I am a wanna be artist! I am not the most talented with a needle or sewing machine by far but I love taking pictures. I also love clothing and creating art via my clothes and I love blogging. Each of these, feed my love of creating something of my own and my desire to be very present to a moment! I can see a good picture in my head before it happens, or as its happening.

I am lucky that God helps me attract good people my way. The fact that Rachel would lend me her camera kind of blows me away. I am saving to buy it or one like it!


( the mess in the back is me cleaning out my closet - again!)

Camp Pov, Hilton Head Island Summer 2011

Sprinkle, squish between my toes,
The smell of ocean to my nose.
I can feel each grain of sand,
It falls from air into my hand.
The shells I find along the shore,
Picked up by birds that fly and soar.
They sparkle like the ocean's waves,
And carry sand from all the lakes.
I walk along the tip of the sea,
That’s where my feet leave prints to be.
I walk all the way to the end of the land,
The land that holds this beautiful sand.


from www.PoetryInNature.com ( Morgan Swain)

Happily 42!

I TURNED 42 years old this week on Tuesday, June 14th. I feel very much at peace. I know how to love and what it feels like to be loved, I have done some interesting things professionally, things I have loved and things I have HATED... but i learned from it all. I have traveled a bit, although there is so much more of the world I want to see. The Pov Peeps and Drays are all healthy! I live in my little Pov Place Nest with my three guys.. who are the light of my life

( almost all the time!) Note the ALMOST!

So happy birthday to me... happy birthday to me.. I am joyful and at peace... happy birthday to me( and I even got Wrinkle Cream in the mail!)

I just love HATS! Always have and always will!

FOUR TIMES THE FUN: B wick Quads

My neighbor lovely "M" had quadruplets recently.... To honor the family Jackie and I hosted a little get together out our neighborhood pool. It was fun and those babies are soooo cute! I have to say Mrs. MC (aka Momma of Quads) looks absolutely amazing. She wore a lovel black one piece and a fabulous hat. She is a mother to five children under three. Can you say AHHHHHH----- MAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ- ING?!!!!!!!!!!!!

How do you capture a month of LIFE?

Exciting, busy, Mother's Day, Memorial Weekend,11 Years of Marriage- Anniversary, Field Day, getting ready for summer and 1st grade, HOMEWORK, Yoga, prayer, sun salutations, gardening, flowers, Saturday night DVDs with my guy, meals for mom's, planning parties, celebrating quadruplets in Berewick, Garage Sales, Firetrucks that shoot water, soccer games, 90 degree days that I LOVE!, being outside, tan lines already, sunscreen, too busy, meditation.. trying to meditate.... end of year stuff, yearbooks, finding Summer Camps, registering for Summer Camps, Career Day at Berewick, All the Places You will Go, Play Therapy Lessons taught by Ms. Emily, thinking about first grade teachers.... Berewick PTA, Berewick School Leadership Team, Counseling Classes, new opportunities, being present, not being present but saying.. "It is OK anyway".... being sad, happy, peaceful all in one week!Porter Paint: Chipmunk and Puppy Paws... creating a serene bedroom.. well almost serene...YOGA Class, not being able to do poses, watching others and my mind thinking : "THEY DO THIS BETTER THAN I DO!"" ...... excitement... creating new stuff.....new teachers, transistions..... summer reading books....planning the summer, watering plants...... dreaming of Lettuce Wraps and Mexican Food, the awesome recipe my neighborhood girlfiends have for Buffalo Chix Dip, Chanel Exhibit and Morocco, Real Housewifes of NY(love them), Bib Necklaces, Art, School Curriculm, less testing.. more fun! Deep Breaths ALWAYS DEEP BREATHS... feeling amazingly peaceful right now....! Namaste

Hallelujah Easter - 2011

I have to tell you Easter Mass at St. Peters Catholic Church Uptown was amazing. The church was packed and at the end the choir sang the Hallelujah Chorus. I have heard it before but this time I got chills. It was really majestic and beautiful. I could feel God's presence in the room and within me. It was an amazing feeling. I am pretty good at finding those moments where I can just feel goodness. Easter was amazing. I ate mom's food, my parents taught us more about being green thumbs.

I am just a very lucky girl I know. So much to be thankful for!

Have a wonderful week!