More on Brookgreen Gardens

We enjoyed a slow day on Sunday at the gardens, but alas my photobucket won't let me load my pictures. So here are just a few random ones.


The dogwoods were dressed in a beautiful red.


The above is a nice courtyard where we sat in the wonderful orange chairs in the warmth of the sun eating M & M's and drinking coffee. Those chairs are so comfy you really feel like sitting there all day!

Below is the lake at which we had a nice picnic lunch all to ourselves with birds singing all around---quite heavenly.


Above is the magnolia path--again to ourselves--ROMANTIC

My favorite photos still await! I may give up and post them in the smaller version if Photobucket doesn't start working!

Glorious day here in SC

A wonderful fall day here in SC--made more splendid by going to Brookgreen gardens and sitting in a courtyard.
Photobucket isn't working for me today so I hope to post later in the week! The colors and contrasts were magical! And the coffee and M & M's were fab too ;-) PS. What is it about this time of the year, I am always so hungry!

Got rid of the old light

This was a KINDOF cool old light. But it didn't match our colors so we finally removed it this week. I am much more content. It was hanging too low and was not centered above the table . It looked strange both because of the color and the location. So it is gone now!

Pumpkin Chai tea and Cornbread Pudding

So have you guys seen the above pumpkin spice chai tea from Twinnings? I got to the checkout at Walmart and discovered it was not regular chai tea (which I love). I decided to buy it any ole way. I have tried it today and I think it is growing on me. It is nice with something sweet too.. Then I discovered this recipe below for Cornbread Pudding.
It is sweet. I am going to try it with my lentil pumpkin soup tonight. Here is the link for the corn bread pudding and the lentil pumpkin soup is the post below that one : HERE

It was a sad day. My pastor's brother was killed this week in a car accident. The funeral was today. The clouds have moved in so it is a somber day. The church had a time of prayer at the same time as the funeral was taking place (about 2 hours distance). I found that the prayer time really was meaningful. Praying is like being in heaven at times!

More and more simplifying

See the hutch in the above right hand side? That hutch had been with us all of our married lives. We have had it 34 years. When we downsized out of our spindle cottage to our present condo it moved along with us. I decided last week to donate it to Salvation Army. This hutch held a ton of dishes. I managed to find places in the condo for most of them and it certainly freed up some space.

There is always the question of how much to simplify. I am living without color on the walls here in the condo and I am soooo used to all kinds of colors. It makes it easy to move things around and change things up---but then I don't get the warm or vibrant embrace of color.

Beside all of the changes the move has brought, freeing up time for more things has been nice. However, I have also been studying the difference between Roman Catholicism and Reformed Protestantism. This has been occupying a lot of my time. I got started on this because I realized the early Church Fathers were very different in many respects to my reformed faith.

So I have been uprooted in home, and then uprooted in how I see things spiritually. I am still going through this process. This is why I haven't spent much time at this particular blog. Simplifying streamlines life in many ways, but it also brings extra time for thought which in turn can be UN_simplifying lol.

Candy Land Birthday party (2)

Little Corwin was quite confused since he slept through most of the party for his 5 year old sister!



Most of the backyard was a Candy Land adventure. Painted rectangles marked the game spots


Some of the characters were Gramma Nutt (above) (ME)



Princess Frostine (above)

Princess Lolly (above) This picture was taken before adjustments to the crown had been made! It was her 5 year old birthday party! She had just gotten up from a rest and needed adustments!

Lord licorice--who unfortunately scared some of the kiddies and made me have some scary dreams even though in real life he is my hubby!




Table for adults had veggies (believe me there were tons of candy!)



You can see the rectangles in the background. The kids went from place to place in a group and got candy at the various stops.







Above was the starting point of the game.

They had to go through the slide fort to get to the lollipop area


At the end was a nice cake. They also had a treasure hunt and made necklaces.







Rhianwen and a friend had to draw their own versions of Princess Frostine --I thought they were quite good. The whole party was so much fun!

Candy Land birthday party

We had a wonderful Candyland birthday part for our 5 year old Princess Lolly---I will have to write about it later when I have some time!