Happy Thanksgiving!

Making homemade lemonade tonight & a fresh green salad to take over to Jennings in the morning.  Gobble gobble!

to eat a carrot

fresh from the garden - then lightly steamed & pureed

her first bite

carrots oozing back out

6 months

I found this dress at the Goodwill in Athens while pregnant with Levi - I absolutely love it & have held it all this time, just waiting to see...



The citrus is ripe at our house.  Satsumas (above) & the lemons below.

Six Months Old Tomorrow!

sunshine morning

a bit of time each day is spent with toes in the grass - inspecting (and eating) leaves, grass, and pine needles

she had her first 'real' bite of food yesterday : a chunk of kale swiped & gulped down before I could extracted it while sitting on her blanket in the garden 

Levi's newly constructed 'science board' - all manner of animals are included - I love these ideas he comes up with - my *favorites* are of course the very detailed house fly & yellow jacket

a new bunting for the livingroom - Levi picked out & cut the fabric himself - I did the sewing

my 'Thanksgiving cactus' blooming right on time

we did a 'grow out' of the few Carolina Redstick bean seeds we had = grown strictly to let the beans mature to create a new seed crop
we are harvesting the first of these mature beans

another 'grow out' for Wildwood Pumpkin seeds produced this lovely

one of the very first blooms beginning to open on the first of 20+ Camellia bushes around the property

Jemima surrender

aint no pretender gonna ride in my canoe

Sprucing up the joint

The lady with the helmet baby...

I know people are just curious, but lately when I shop I avoid making eye contact with anyone I pass just so I don't have to explain the 'why' of my daughter's head gear.  It gives me a glimpse of what anyone with a permanent disability endures long term.