Myrtle Beach January 17, 2019 - A warm winter day

Another beautiful day full of sunshine and warm weather. I made Spanish omelets for breakfast they were not pretty and tasted amazing. 

We spent the morning doing activities around the trailer Paul outside and I worked on my first quilt block for the 50 blocks 50 weeks on face book. 

In the early afternoon we went for a walk on the beach and the images from today are the things that caught my attention on this walk.  

Once back at the trailer we did some cleaning and at 3:30 we met friends for ½ price banana splits.

Signs of the spring to come.

We are home now and will soon make our way to the hot tub before settling in for the nights.

Signs of spring the spruce have started to bloom since we have arrived.

The holly shrubs have started blooming since our arrival.

Grandma Snyder

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5 Minutes Of My Day - Noticing the beauty all around us

Taking the time to stop and notice with small and beautiful things all around us.

2017 Celebrating the wedding of our niece and our anniversary 

2016 Traveling in Utah such a beautiful place

2015 Out for a walk on this the first day of fall

2014 Getting flowers from my beloved.

Grandma Snyder

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5 Minutes Of My Day - Chasing Monarch Butterflies

Once again we were greeted after work with 6 to 10 monarch butterflies flitting from one flower to another in our butterfly garden.  And not having learned from yesterdays experience we chased the butterflies with our cameras.

We find such joy in our butterfly garden, in all our gardens if truth be told.

2017 Changing up my perspective 

2016 Celebrating with a peer are work

2015 Playing as with children before they leave with Quinn

2014 At a flea market on a beautiful sunny day

Grandma Snyder

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5 Minutes Of My Day - Watching Butterflies Never Grows Old

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;

There is a rapture on the lonely shore;

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar;

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

~ George Gordon, Lord Byron

Sitting outside watching our butterfly garden the birds and butterflies are a wonder to see.

Where do you go to sit and observe nature around you.

2017 Our sunflower garden is being enjoyed by more than me.

2016 Celebrating a first birthday

2015 Driving home under stormy skies and peaceful pasture land

2014 Our Peace Garden sunflowers are huge.

Grandma Snyder

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5 Minutes Of My Day - The Monarch Butterflies have arrived

The monarch butterflies have finally arrived and we have stopped our activities to sit and admire their beauty.

"If you want to live more you must master the art of appreciating the little, everyday blessings of life.  This is not altogether a golden world, but there are countless gleams of gold to be discovered in it if we give our minds to them." ~ Henry Alford Porter.

2016 Sorting through old photographs

2016 Sitting quietly at lunch enjoying this water feature

2015 The beauty found when not taking the highways

2914 Noticing the first sign of fall colour

Grandma Snyder

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5 Minutes Of My Day - Hospitality

Hospitality - the friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors or strangers.  

We arrived home tonight to learn our son and his family had invited Grandpa and I over for supper.  They wanted to extend to us their hospitality a delicious meal and a respite from the heat in their air-conditioned home. 

The sound of the water moving in their fresh water aquarium created a relaxing back drop to our after-dinner conversation.

When was the last time you either received or extended hospitality outside of the traditional holiday seasons?

Our path is clean with sweeping, the gate is opened wide,

Who knows who may be passing, this way at eventide.

We lit our heart’s bright candle; its beams shine far and clear,

To tell one who may need it that rest and love are here.

We baked the bread of friendship for one may dine thereof;

And poured in crystal goblets the rare sweet wine of love.

And though we may not know it – we heard it from the wise –

That often, very often, come stars in strangers’ guise

~ Rachel Day.

2017 Remembering mother through the flowers she loved

2016 The sky foretells of a storm coming

2015 Finding love in their 80's

2014 At the Fair with our grandchildren

Grandma Snyder

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5 Minutes Of My Day - Farming is dusty work in a drought

Today on our drive home the country roads southwestern Ontario CA. were clogged with dust, as farmers attempt to bring in the harvest and prepare the soil for planting winter wheat.

Extremes in weather seems to becoming the normal and it is worrisome as the farmers who produce our food are at the whims of the weather.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce;

In man they join to some mysterious use.

~ Alexander Pope

What extremes in weather have you been having in your area of the world?

2017 Taking a calligraphy course 

2016 Out Walking and coming upon a pink flower and
thinking about Aunt Marjorie who is 96 today.

2015 Celebrating Aunt Marjorie's 95th birthday

2014 Celebrating Aunt Marjorie's Birthday

Grandma Snyder

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5 Minutes Of My Day - Finding welcoming gates and undiscovered trails

Always be open to a new adventure, to the possibility of being surprise by the things you pass by each day.  This gate while new has been here long enough for the ferns to grow up underneath and we have walked passed this gate at least three times a week this past summer without noticing it. 

Today on our walk the path leading up and away from the gate and the gate itself filled us with wonder.  Adventure happened when we our imaginations go then the path became a trial transporting us unknown places through the cool of a forest floor.

"One man finds an obstacle a stumbling block; another finds it a stepping stone."

 ~ William Lyon Phelps

What ordinary things in your life are you just walking past?

2017 Reading with our granddaughter

2016 At Black Creek Village with our grandchildren and their dolls

2015 Visiting with family from Saskatchewan 

2014 The weather has turned cold not this cold but close

Grandma Snyder

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5 Minutes Of My Day - We are never to busy to notice

Wow today was busy, rushing from one activity to the next and being mindful that we needed to make time to stop and recharge.  Setting aside time at lunch to walk the river path where we stopped to acknowledge the place we were standing in.  The path was lined with Jewel Weed and within the beautiful orange flower we watched the busy activity of this pollinator.

We are all busy and never too busy to stop and find joy and wonder in the world around us.

What did you stop and notice today?

2017 Loving the yellow tansy growing along the fence rows

2016 Chronicling our granddaughter's sewing project

2015 Four generations of family together

2014 Trimming our Rose Of Sharon bush

Grandma Snyder

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5 Minutes Of My Day - Peace be in our hearts

A day full of peace and joy.

A wonderful potluck at church and a 20^th anniversary celebration.

Peace in our hearts, mindful that each moment lived to the fullest is enough.

If peace be in the heart,

The wildest winter storm is full of solemn beauty,

The midnight flash but shows the path of duty,

Each living creature tells some new and joyous story,

The very trees and stones all catch a ray of glory,

If peace be in the heart.

~ Charles Francis Richardson

2017 Enjoying a siblings gardens

2015 At the fall fair

2015 At the church climbing tree with our grandchildren

2014 Enjoying the butterflies in our garden

Grandma Snyder

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