Happy New Year - 2010

I want to extend a warm and sincere
HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone.

I know for some of you its already 2010,
even though its only 8:30 pm here in my back yard.

I wish you all "ENOUGH" of everything that you need and wish for.

All the best!

p.hawkins

Macro Monday - Mom's antique keys

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I was putting away Christmas stuff and went to put my moms antique keys back up on the wall and thought this would make a great shot for Macro Monday!

Have a wonderful holiday everyone.

p.hawkins







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I Heart Faces-Week 51 - "Hilarious Outtakes"

The family was finally SICK AND TIRED of me taking photographs!!!
(can you tell?)

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Sunday drive up the coast...for a chat.

I took a drive up the coast today. A chat with God was what I was looking for.

And a few rocks and pictures too.

I packed a lunch like mom and me used to. Tuna sandwich, fritos and a drink. Yes that was her favorite. So off I went.

Have a wonderful day!

p.hawkins

Camera Critters #90 -Rescue attempt

I found this little guy on the cement by my front porch. I scooped him up and promplty put him in a little tea cloth and got my keys and ran to the vet. They gave me a box and said what to do. We even called the bird people and they didn't call till the next day.

In the mean time, they said put him in your bathroom, let him have access to food and try to feed him. He was even drinking from the drop of sugar water I was able to navigate to the underside of the spoon, so I thought he was on the mend!

I tried as hard as I could to save him but he died the next day at 11 a.m. I have since learned that if their fur is all fluffed out like a cotton ball and their teeny little tongue sticks out they are near death and cant be saved.

I tried my best and stayed up with him all night.

He was beautiful and I was devastated.

p.hawkins


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Yes they DO love me!

Yes, this is my Sister Sue and my Sister-in-law Julie Loving humor. It made my christmas day the best day ever. I almost peed my nightie!

And what a haul!

Yes a ton of great gifts. QUEEN DORK STYLE!

I hope all of you had a lovely Christmas!

Now I have a whole list of great stuff to do like laundry and beading and making more Biscotti!
Oh yeah...I learned how to make Biscotti! (report to come later today)

p.hawkins
ps. just because I learned how to make it doesnt mean it was good? well I liked it.

Merry Christmas to you all

Hello everyone. I hope you all have a blessed and delightful Christmas.

Its still Christmas eve here for me, so wishing you are surrounded by family and friends and a warm house.

p.hawkins

Heroes

~Quote~
Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”

Peter S. Beagle

I am not sure why, but in my tail end of my deadlines for the magazine, this quote seemed to be perfect. I love how he talks about unicorns in that way.
Dont we all have our own unicorns to rescue? they just have different names.

today mine is called a "Bead-acorn"

Have a great Monday!!!!

p.hawkins

Grace

“Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home” ~John Newton

Oh how often I have thought how in the world did I make it this far? I know lots of us ‘baby boomers’ have thought the same. I mean look at the time frame we grew up in!

It would be not only embarrassing, but probably stupid to put down in words all the things I did that should have killed me INSTATNLY in my young life. But that’s just it isn’t it, I was young?

Is that an excuse or just a convenient reason?

I do know that, without a doubt, God has had his hand on my shoulder all of my life. You know how you put your hands on a little kids head from behind and point his eyes in the right direction? Maybe saying “no baby, look there”. Well we are trying to put them on the right path.

I think god has been standing behind me my whole life grabbing my head from behind and making me look in the right directions. Oh that’s not to say, I paid proper attention to it….I mean sometimes the sparkly stuff was off in another direction, or the big shiney truck said drive me Pam or the sparkly bubbles of the beer on the bar calling me to drink it and enjoy it. Nope. I can’t deny it.

I confess I don’t all ways look down the right path, but I am so GRATEFUL for the fact that God still points my head in those right directions. I am just so glad he has not tired of doing it and has not given up on me!!!

Have a glorious Sunday all!

p. hawkins