Today feels like Friday!

Everyday this week and last week and the week before felt like friday : the day that ushers in the weekend. So all those weeks felt like a long , long weekend.  Today feels like Friday. This morning was  garden time: planting some green and red peppers  and watering, watering. Summer heat came with the solstice. Now cleaning and then will take a swim. But I'm stuck on this author:

                    Janet Marsh, studio on the River Test, Wherwell, Hampshire





Nancy had posted a  wonderful book that I found and arrived in the mail. I'm reading it and fascinated.

The gorgeous illustrated and written book ( from the Itchen Valley in Hampshire)  gave me curiousity  to look up    Janet Marsh and follow a trail on the internet:

March House Books  

One day, when we’ve saved enough pennies, we’ll actually walk through the door, and buy all the things that we’ve longed for – but just now, we are both rather poor!

plus their website 

The World From My Window
writes about life in a typical English village - or tales from England's rural underbelly!

The Children's War  
books about WWII 


Janet's books:

  

Cookbooks on my table

From Tupelo Honey Cafe in Asheville, NC. Blog is here. 





These two are the BBQ Queens but this book is  also from the garden to the grill. Lots of grilled veggies and wonderful sauces. 

Want to look at this one:

A UK  blog: Otter Farm Blog ,  who is involved at River Cottage:

Did you know this author's daughter married....

                                          see this illustrator~~ one of my favorites who I collect

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In all, she authored 38 published books. You can read more about her ideas on storytelling in The Way of the Storyteller and How To Tell a Story. It’s not too surprising that her own daughter grew up to marry another writer, none other than the famous Robert McCloskey of Make Way For Ducklings, One Morning in Maine, and Blueberries for Sal. He actually illustrated Ruth’s popular book Journey Cake, Ho! and her granddaughter, Sarah, is Sal.

Read the whole blog from Liz at Living Books Library

Here is Leerie  at Gutenburg Press

Silence and Art

"The Great Wave, Silence and Song: Capturing the Forces of Nature.”

There was discussion of Makoto Fujimura’s work, two pieces of which were on display in the gallery—vibrant abstract paintings of mineral pigment and the translucent gold leaf that has become his trademark. 

Divine grace is arguably the central thematic current that pulls much of Fujimura’s work, and the spiritual ambience at play on the canvas is, in person, unmistakable and breathtaking. But there was more than just the artwork on display that lent Saturday evening’s talk an aura of the metaphysical.

 From the Chelsea Music  Festival in NYC. 

Mr and Mrs......

Marriage!

 

Brandie & Evan

Back in town for the wedding week

Back from the Childlight Conference and this is the wedding  week. You think all is taken care of but it is the week  suitcases get packed, lists are checked , and errands still are being run. We are going up to the NC mountains for this wedding.

It was surreal to be with Makoto Fujimura.
Yes, with him, my husband and my daughter.
( no verb in that sentence!! ) More on that but it is the week of a son's wedding !!!  

bowtie from The Cordial Churchman

at the Children's Museum in Rock Hill, SC with the pony tail of my daughter, a friend/ artist from my church and Mako looking at the design. 

at Dominique Verechia & Carlee Lingerfelt's studio in Rock Hill, SC

lunch at the Crotts home with Makoto

Today's WORD A DAY is REDOUND. I meditated on  this verse last week and again this week :  James Moffatt's version of Eph 1: 8- 13:

So richly has God lavished upon us his grace, ...................to make us redound to the praise of his glory by being the first to put our hope in Christ. 

 ( Can you believe this is TODAY'S WORD!)
A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

redound

MEANING:

verb intr.:
1. To contribute to (someone's credit, honor, etc.).
2. To come back upon

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old French redonder (to overflow), from Latin redundare (to overflow), from red-/re- (back) + undare (to surge). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wed- (water, wet), which also gave us water, winter, hydrant, redundant, otter, and vodka. Earliest documented use: before 1382. 

I am redounding!

 ( colors for the wedding : cornflower blue and sunflower yellow) 

Friday

I've had my head stuck into Charlotte Mason's series this week as I get ready for Childlight USA next week. 

So do you find yourself in books, blogs, facebook, twitter ........ then you have an afternoon coffee/tea ( I had a tea latte) yesterday and realize how special it is to talk. Eye to eye.
 A dear friend who we skype in to our Book Club is home for a month from Austria. ( missions) You know the times when God is in the presence like He did say: when two or more are gathered. That was yesterday. 

I will see a few more blogging/CM friends ( do any of the others have blogs?) next week. Last time that the conference is closeby in NC. We will have much time with the keynote speaker: Makoto Fujimura.
                                                                     

Have you heard his Graduation Speeches from last weekend at Biola University? Here and here. 

                                       Columbine Flowers