I rarely try to get the girls to stand together and “smile” for the camera – it just never happens. But if I stand back and watch, every once in awhile (or a few times in a morning) I’ll catch them at their very (sisterly) best. Fountain hide and seek and fish watching. It was…
Author: thirdstoryies
saturday morning in the garden
Days just don’t get much better than these. Brilliant blue skies, crisp sixty-five degree breezes, early fall flowers and crystal clear ponds and fountains to drag your hands and toes in…unbelievable. Every year I say the same thing when it finally comes – fall is the gift you get for riding out the summer around…
(story)time: Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
I have very early memories of both reading, and watching, Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson. The concept that a story can quite literally pour out of the end of a child’s drawing tool is fascinating to me – but I’m even more drawn to the “errors” in Harold’s drawing that cause the…