Drawing challenge / Smile

Besides ofcourse and always, the two sweeethearts who are

so very dear to me, it are often the little everyday things that

make me smile.

The first coffee in the morning, toys laying around the house , 

my green boots, the neighbours little lambs ,the first

magnolia blossom this week and my bed when i feel

tired.

And from far, from all over the world, you out there

posting all kinds of things that make me :) so often.

Our lovely host this week is Leena, take a look at her blog 

and watch us smiling.

happy weekend x

(p.s.  i tried to comment on several of your posts yesterday but blogger was letting me down)

Green pancakes

A local early spring tradition since the 16th century: green pancakes (Diestse kruidkoeken).

The 'green' are tansy and dandelion leaves, mixed through a standard pancake batter.

They have a rather strong, 'green' taste, i like them with 

some red currant jam, white or brown sugar.

The herbs freshly picked in my garden this morning....

 now off to my afternoon (tea) coffee :)

Body, heart and soul.

another box, started last month, finished today

Open that door...

and see that small is beautiful,

especially on a sunny March day.

Drawing challenge Garden

 Attempt to picture one of many enjoyable  moments in my garden.

Imagine:

summerday evening

daylight fading

still pleasantly warm

bird singing to another bird

other bird answers

green deepens

shadows

low flapping bats

patches of white flowers 

glowing in the growing dusk (that very image!!)

fragant clouds coming 

        going

   returning

in the distance i hear my name called 

ssssh just a few more minutes

For more garden pleasure please visit:

Ariane

Demie

Nadine

Rachel

Mano

Patrice

Leena

Citlalli

Monika

Tanïa

Hagar

Thanks sweeties for particpating and have a beautiful weekend xx

Drawing Challenge invitation !

Garden

so obvious i nearly overlooked it (theme-wise speaking)

 where i spent several hours the past days

 is our theme for this week

whether you have some acres or only a container or flowerpot,

whether you have green fingers or not

wether it's the beginning of spring or autumn where you live,

show us a ' garden' 

you are all invited and welcome

x

(images source: Het bezielde landschap)

35 drawers

This morning rummaging through drawers ...

 and getting surprised ...once more.

Spring (Printemps) was in there too .

The house on the left, on the last postcard

 is a house where i lived in for about ten years.

The postcard is dated 1943.

Nowadays it's a restaurant.

I was there in the '80 and loved the place,

situated in the centre of town, it had a most lovely walled garden

in which grew the biggest magnolia tree i ever saw.

The memory of it made me plant a magnolia tree in my current garden.

Drawing challenge/ Connection

At the beginning of the week i picked up my sketchbook and this was one of the sketches i made.

Getting Ariane's  drawing challenge invitation i saw the connection.

Women connected by motherhood and the love for their children.

It all even got deeper meaning when ,as you might have heard, Belgium got into mourning

because of a terrible bus accident in which 28 people lost their life, among whom 22 children.

At such moments people feel united by their grief, connected by the love for that young life and the

desire to take good care of our children.

What came to my mind is that we should feel connected with the welbeing of all the children in the world,

because it is of great importance in how our future world will look like.

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'Connection', such an interesting theme.

Infinitly many.

We are connected with all living creatures, the sun, the moon

water and earth

air and fire

with the past and the future

the unicorn? 

the unicorn represents the human imagination,

because through times, it is that what makes our

world what it is and looks like today,

and so, for example, we are connected with the first human being

who invented something as simple a wheel, a book,a medicine etc. etc.

Wonderful theme dear Ariane!

Please take a look at her blog to find out about more connections.

xx

I'm aware you're out there...

but sometimes i need a hideaway.

Dear friends , both my partner and i have been ill the past weeks.

Not only that, my laptop and our car both broke down and had to be replaced.

In the meantime we are feeling a lot better , bought a new car and today i finally felt welll enough to go

out and buy a new laptop.

I even did a liitle bit of painting.

Patrice, Julia and Monica, thanks for your sweet comments.

I have a lot of catching up to do, i missed you too.

xx