Day 9

I planned a different post but I have to go out of order for technical reasons....but that is actually proper as my creativity skips around the same way. I felt like embroidering so sitting by the lake on my lunch hour I started a new ornament instead of working on the carved birds....

how to be happy

The first and most important thing

is to be thankful for the little things you have,

find the joy all around you,

the small magic,

the tiny discoveries that make life extraordinary,

and

appreciate that there is beauty everywhere.

 

One of the things I was thankful for lately was an afternoon to myself.

I had a dentist appointment, 

which I am irrationally afraid of.

And my tooth hurt so i decided not to go back to work, 

but stopped at a new body of water I had recently discovered to drink my banana flavored milkshake. 

I couldn't eat lunch, but i could drink.

I have always lived in this area 

but i had never even heard of this small lake, 

a series of small lakes it turns out.

I had sort of stumbled upon it a few weeks ago while looking for somewhere else.

And it is close enough to get to on my lunch hour.

 I just love it when i find a new spot to go to that has water. 

It soothes.

sharing the JOY

hello.

 I have been making the trip to the lake on my lunch hour with my sketchbook and these give me joy this week...

sharing the joy

I had a wonderful lunch hour in Hammondsport enjoying the Palette's. I have mentioned them before but for those of you that don't know.... about 50 artists each paint a palette povided by the Chamber of Commerce and they are displayed around the village and the lake all summer in front of businesses. Each one has a letter posted by it. You can make it a day trip, travel around the lake see all the great art and collect the letters. If you get them all and put them together into the secret phrase you can win prizes. At the end of the summer, the Chamber auctions them off and the artist gets half of the sale price. I have only made it to see about ten so far. This is my second year participating. I've already posted it but my palette is the last one shown in this post. Enjoy!

 Sorry about my finger showing....

Hope rocks again!

This is my second post for Hope rocks! In the original post I expalined the idea which comes from Lille Diane, you can click on her picture to the right that says woodstocklilly to see her blog and read how the idea got started. Basically the idea is to share a little surprise of hope by hiding these rocks.

My third rock I put on the desk of a co-worker who needed a little hope to realx about things she is dealing with right now. She says it's helping to squeeze the rock once in awhile.

 Rock number 4 got left today on a bench by the lake. I visited Keuka  lake in the snow on my lunch hour and took a few pictures of the cold water and seagulls and the tiny little white rock waiting there on the bench for the first passerby who ventures through the snow down to the water....It's fun to imagine what they might think when they find it!