FINDING PLEASURES IN THE SIMPLE THINGS

Month: May 2009

Visiting Family in Toronto

Visiting Family in Toronto

We visited my sister and her family in Toronto about a couple of months ago, and we got to see my niece (who is such a cutie) for the very first time. Alex wasn’t very sure on how to interact with her, since he has […]

Eastern Redbud

Eastern Redbud

Below are a few pictures of one of my favorite trees – the Eastern Redbud in our front yard. I saw the Redbud tree for the very first time years ago in a local park. It was spring and the flowering Redbud, with its clusters […]

Spending the Morning in the Park

Spending the Morning in the Park

These pictures were taken sometime late April at one of our favorite parks. I remember it was a beautiful, cool, sunny morning. The trees were not providing much shade yet as the leaves were still fairly small but that was fine by us…all the better […]

Alex’s Lego Creator Collection

Alex’s Lego Creator Collection

We love Legos!

Alex and Daddy Having Fun Outside

Alex and Daddy Having Fun Outside

Precious moments…

Spring Flowers

Spring Flowers

I love tulips. They are my favorite spring flowers – simple in form yet elegant. I eagerly look forward to them in our own garden every year. Unfortunately, they are also a favorite among the deer. We got away with it for the past two […]

Farmers Market at Shaker Square

Farmers Market at Shaker Square

The pictures below were taken on our trip to the North Union Farmers Market at Shaker Square around middle of April. The Farmers Market had only just opened the Saturday before. It was still kind of early in the season, so there wasn’t much produce […]

A Beautiful Spring Day

A Beautiful Spring Day

These pictures were taken fairly early in Spring (note the leafless trees, and bare flowerbeds). Look at how blue the sky was in the first picture. It was my kind of a perfect spring day – cool but sunny, with a cloudless blue sky. We […]

Alex and His Easter Stickers

Alex and His Easter Stickers

Alex received lots of cool Easter stickers from Grammy and Grandpa, and he decided to use them all in one go. He further decorated the paper by drawing lines around the stickers (as requested by Mommy). 🙂

Landscape Collage

Landscape Collage

This is yet another simple project from Art Projects for Kids blog. The only difficulty was trying to find yellowed paperbacks that we don’t want anymore. 🙂