Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. Corey is SOOO happy to have me home.

2. The clouds at sunset when viewed from our pickup game at Alethia Tanner Park (and the subsequent bike ride home) are all glorious pinks and oranges.

3. The washing machine, which has been out of commission for the past week, is back up and running. (A related beautiful thing is that Rudi handwashes his bike stuff and he added my workout clothes to the mix so I had things to wear for volleyball this week.)

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?

Another week of not knowing what day it is. Sigh.

Anyway, here are three beautiful things from my past week:

1. Karen and I get a chance to spend a lovely afternoon together.

2. Rebs and I spend a couple hours catching up on the phone and she follows up with photos of the bull moose she saw on vacation this summer (which she shared in the comments a few weeks back).

3. Rudi returned home from Finland Monday night, much to the great job of Corey. (Apparently our pet sitter’s catnip is not as appealing as having someone to curl up with at night.)

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world this week?

Keeping track of what day it is seems a little challenging right now. So we’re getting three beautiful things on Friday instead of Thursday this week:

1. My parents’ yard is a hummingbird haven, and the curious birds like to hover outside the window and peer in at you.

2. I spy a pair of monarch butterfly caterpillars munching their way down stalks of my mother’s parsley. The next day, they’ve moved on.

3. Listening to rain fall on the roof makes for delightful sleeping.

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. Mum is home from the hospital.

2. Our cat sitter texts photos of Corey. He is enjoying his vacation brushing and catnip.

3. My mom’s friend has made zucchini cake for us.

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. While last week I would have assured you that I had no zucchinis in my garden, this week I discovered one nearly as long as my forearm hiding under leaves and vines.

2. Rudi went to get the nail pulled out of our tire and the tire patched and brought home doughnuts from my favorite shop, even though I was the one driving when the car was attacked by road debris.

3. P!nk’s Summer Carnival concert was great, even though a tornado watch pushed the start time back and caused the opening opening act to have to forfeit their time. Even when the skies opened halfway through P!nk’s set and poured down on her, the band, and the dancers, they kept the energy and the joy high and endeared themselves to everyone in the crowd at the ballpark.

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?

Three beautiful things from my past week:

1. My garden haul this week included tiny red chili peppers, orange cherry tomatoes, a yellow squash, a green bell pepper, blue-purple potatoes, and purple and green basil — and rainbow chard.

2. John, Nicole, and Juliet arrive for a visit — their first in four years. We eat a sushi feast to celebrate.

3. After 29.5 days (not that I was counting or anything) biking around Europe, Rudi came home.

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?