TGIF | Late August. – mere-et-filles
In most months, this would be my last TGIF post until next month’s Hello. This year, though, August is giving us four weeks and five weekends. I have community meetings spread across four wee…| mere-et-filles
Welcome fifth Friday and a fifth weekend! exclamation point and … acknowledgement of how weird time is when I share one peek a week into my life. I think it’s a mixed bag for most of us. and … Sojourners …| mere-et-filles
In most months, this would be my last TGIF post until next month’s Hello. This year, though, August is giving us four weeks and five weekends. I have community meetings spread across four wee…| mere-et-filles
We had a great trip to Nashville (see Grateful below), and how is it (nearly) mid-August?! In spite of all my wishes for an early fall, apparently last week was “first false fall”; it’s back in the 90’s. AND it’s …| mere-et-filles
For me that will always be the summer day of summer days – a cloudless sky, ditches and roadside deep in grass, poppies, cuckoo pint, trees heavy with leaf, orchards bulging over hedge briars.J.L.Carr, A Month in the Country In …| mere-et-filles
It’s Friday, y’all … and time for another peek into what’s happening around here through my favorite lens. This was yesterday morning’s porch time. I could write a who…| mere-et-filles
Labor Day is still a full month away, it feels like 92 degrees outside, and school buses have been practicing their runs for Monday’s official debut. I had coffee with a friend this morning (my small group is on a …| mere-et-filles
The hydrangeas are looking great! which is more than I can say for other parts of our landscape. I usually share a photo like this in August (these are the daisies by our neighborhood gate) … we are tired & …| mere-et-filles
Happy Friday*! We’ve reached the back half of the month and our kiddos have just two more weeks of summer vacation. which seems totally bonkers. and real. I have two meetings on Sunday about …| mere-et-filles
The hydrangeas exploded this week, Marc harvested more cucumbers & tomatoes, my toes are freshly pedi’d (again with OPI’s Cajun Shrimp), and Sara & Fern are coming for dinner. H…| mere-et-filles
Happy Friday the 13th! I’m not at all superstitious … while I was working on this post the clouds cleared and there’s blue sky out my window for the first time in days. Would I be…| mere-et-filles
Wow y’all. May feels like the longest month ever. It’s the 5th Friday and it will still be May tomorrow. It’s rained every day this week; we are so ready to see the sun! and in th…| mere-et-filles
I always think of Memorial Day Weekend as the start of summer so: “summer begins”. Yesterday was the last day of school (it was like a Sunday morning traffic-wise when I drove to the bo…| mere-et-filles
Hello Friday! It’s been a long week … Monday feels like a month ago and even Wednesday feels like days (more than just two). I’m very happy to be sitting at the kitchen counter, t…| mere-et-filles
Hello Friday! Hello lilies! Marc planted one little lily a few years back. Every summer/fall/winter I fret that our landscapers have killed it … and then in the late spring it comes back. big…| mere-et-filles
Sometimes, two of them will take a boat and sail downstream, to reach a new place where they can start a new story. How will that story go? Who will tell it, and whom will they tell it to?Hiromi Ka…| mere-et-filles
The photo above is from today’s morning walk … a smidge later than usual and our first without a flashlight in months. Hello May! with thanks to Diana Butler-Bass for sharing yesterday …| mere-et-filles
Happy Friday … quickly! Marc is home for the weekend (this makes THREE in a row!) and I’m headed to Beaufort (our 15th weekend there!) shortly. My mom, sister, and sister-in-law drove d…| mere-et-filles
last Saturday’s morning walk … and we’ve made it to another weekend. The collection of updates I want to share don’t fit (neatly anyway) my usual T-G-I-F so this is just a l…| mere-et-filles
As she works, she considers what she might do with her crops. Betty has a recipe for raspberry shortbread she could try, if she saves up her margarine rations. This imaginative pondering feels as i…| mere-et-filles
…and just like that I find myself at the end of another month. this time seated at the desk in my study … a seat that’s been empty for weeks, partly because it’s cold in thi…| mere-et-filles
Hello and happy π day to all who celebrate! We are having pizza tonight to celebrate :-) It’s been a full week, y’all. and I am happy to be sitting here in the quiet Greenwood apartment…| mere-et-filles
I believe joy is not only a choice, but an act of resistance to the darkness. To choose joy, to share joy, and to celebrate the joy of others is to refuse to allow the darkness to define us or our …| mere-et-filles
Well hey there, it’s been a minute. and it’s Friday … which should be the easiest day for me to ease back into a blogging habit. Lydia invited me and Lucy for snacks and knitting …| mere-et-filles
Welcome to this last Friday of December, the one where the Twelve Days of Christmas are just beginning, the new year is still a few days off, the refrigerator is so full of leftovers I won’t …| mere-et-filles
… and just like that, it’s the Friday before Christmas. or as we’re saying in our family this year Chrismukkuh (iykyk). At Thanksgiving (when we were last together), it seemed lik…| mere-et-filles
In these weeks the town has seemed more than ever to her eyes beautiful, the rich bronze tones of November darkening at night into deepest liquid blue.Sally Rooney, Intermezzo Say what you want abo…| mere-et-filles
November has finally arrived … sweaters, mittens, hats, rain (no snow), wind … and I am not sorry. neither is Lucy. We both love the cozy fireplace vibe in the library … and I thi…| mere-et-filles
I could not help but notice that my neighbor’s new* tree – a redbud – is offering a heart if I care to pause and notice. which of course I do. I also notice the beautiful shading …| mere-et-filles
