Happy Birthday to REX!

Seventeen years old!

Love you, dude. :)

(Did you get the card I sent? Heehee.)

The Wheeler Contingent in Oregon

I wish I had a camera so I could follow Claire up with some bits of spring in the Willamette Valley. It's cloudy today, but the rhododendrons and dogwood blooms are breath-taking. The lilacs are coming out just about now as well.

This week is looking full -- a paper due, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test to read, CharlieNotes to do, deponent verbs to memorize, Euclid to sweat over, and hopefully some pleasant hours of running to balance it all out.

Spring term lasts only six more weeks -- six short weeks and then home for three precious months. Our plans for those months involve camping, Faith (yay!!), Zack's graduation, Hill Abbey, Cannon Beach, and hopefully many read-aloud hours with Harry Potter, right, Claire and Brennan? :) I am holding out hope of a chance to visit the beach sometime.

Now that Claire has graciously refreshed my memory on how to post, lol, I hope to write more often, so that she will no longer be the "lonely poster". :)

Now back to deponent verbs and the middle voice. :)

love,
Madelaine

Sunrise

I am a famously late riser but today for some unknown reason I woke up at 5:00. I have been known to say "5:00 in the morning is a time that should not be!" But today I was thankful for it.




The geese on the pond down the road seemed to like me taking pictures of them and posed very nicely.



They did not seem so sure about Sophie; our poorly socialized home-schooled dog =D.


She how ever was more than sure about them!


I have decided that once a week I can be a morning person =).



Claire (the lonely poster:D)

Rain

Today is rainy. And I am loving it. Rain is the best. So is sun. Really I think that I would love any kind of weather but; rain is so photogenic. And rain means umbrellas. And umbrellas mean color. And color means awesome. So for today rain is the in thing. And rain means rain drops on the Queen Dorothy irises.


Claire (the lonely poster =D)

Poppies = happiness

my new favorite pictures

And I took every one of them! That is the really exciting bit!

Claire (the lonely poster)

Happy day!

Today I am happy. :). For a number of reasons;

#1: My poison oak is going away!

#2: We live in a beautiful world full of light and color and people that are willing to say "you like photography and want to take some pics of the merchandise in my store? Find a cool angle and go right ahead!" People like that make me smile.


#3: My mom lets me borrow her camera.

#4: We (my mom, my dad and myself) spent the morning in down-town Placerville. Mom and Dad sat in Zia's cafe while I walked around town taking pics and making friends. It was awesome. I love my home town and my family!


#5 - 105: My garden is growing; My sister is coming home from college soon; It is almost summer; My oldest brother is graduating in June and we have awesome friends coming from far away to be there; And 100 other reasons that would probably sound really nice and poetic if I could only think of them all. Oh well they are here in spirit :).

Blessings,

Claire (the lonely poster:D)