Some of my favorite non-family shots from the cabin

Lilies growing up around the old life preserver at the lake.

 Humming Birds

Emery and Nana's "breakfast dinner flowers" as Emery would say...

Hadley jumping in the lake.

Teddy jumping in the lake.



Em and I Save The Turtle

I noticed Henry showing a lot of interest in a strange looking rock yesterday afternoon.  Usually that doesn't mean anything because Henry does things like that...chew rocks.  But when Lincoln started showing interest as well, I decided to go and investigate this "rock."

Turns out it was a turtle!

And though I am always proud of the catch our hunting dogs make, I always feel the need to save that poor animal.  So I put the dogs inside and set the turtle shell on the porch.

Emery and I waited to see if the poor thing was still alive.  And slowly he started to peek his head out.

Emery thought he might be hungry and offered him one of the curly cucumbers from the porch garden.

He didn't seem interested.

The dogs never lost interest.

 Once it was clear that he just wanted to get the heck out of here, we let him go on his way.

 "Bye Mr. Turtle"



Cork Wreath

Remember this? My inspiration that took me 5 years to make?

 Well it's finally finished!

 Not bad eh?

 A super sweet neighbor of mine helped out with some extra corks.  I'm talkin' a lot of extra corks.

 So I made this trivet too.

 And this...

And this...

I'm just coming up with stuff now because I have enough corks until the end of time.

Thanks Roxie!