"Yes'm, If you Please'm" ~ Mrs. Tiggy Winkle

Well, now!

With all of the puppies and sniffles from colds and really busyness from Easter and even not fully having put everything away from the tea...

... I'm a titch behind in my chores.

I've been working my tootsies off, I have!

I've earned a blogging break.

 

The laundry basket is a clue to my latest project.

(Actually, this whole house is a project - you'd better get used to it!)

I was just photographing my partner in crime (the basket) when I looked up and realized something.

It's a gorgeous day!

{Actually, on this post, if you want to see a bit more of what I saw, I encourage you to enlarge some of these photos.}

 

I wish that you could smell and hear it, also. The breeze is always around and the brook across the road is bubbling and plashing away and there are leaves rustling in the wind!  (Every year, it always takes me more than a moment to realize that my heart is jumping and why - The leaves are back and rattling in the wind. What a soul moving sound that is!) Birds and spring peepers (baby frogs) are singing - you know - spring sounds!

It smells so

fresh!

That's it!

Everything is  fresh!

The lawn is like velvet and the leaves are more like sprinkling sparkles.

It's, almost unreal .

 

Camera in hand, I started taking photographs of any and everything in every direction.

(and breathing it all in, of course.)

It was at this point that my youngest son, Toby, asked me what I was doing.

"Taking pictures of textures."

"What are textures?" (Except, he couldn't quite say the word.)

Texture

(put on your thinking caps for a wee moment if you please'm)

1. a: something composed of closely interwoven elements: a woven cloth b: the structure formed by the threads of a fabric
2. a: the essential part of something b: an identifying quality: CHARACTER
3. a: the size and organization of small constituent parts of a body or substance <textures of a plant stem>; b: the visual or tactile surface characteristics and appearance of something c: the characteristic consistency esp. of a liquid or semiliquid [fluidity] d: grain [i.e. wood]
4.  a: the smaller features of a rock that depend on the size, shape, arrangement, and distribution of the component minerals [structure] b: a composite of the elements of prose or poetry c: a pattern of musical sound created by tones or lines played or sung together  [The "mosaic" of followers is, again, a perfect example of this! It is like a lovely quilt.]
   

Isn't it interesting that my Webster's Dictionary puts the formation of rock, poetry and music together under one sub-definition?

Anyway,

I love textures! Don't you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lacey trees

 

 

 

 

 

 

And a velvet meadow

 

 

It just might be a dream.

Love,

Katy Noelle