Blooms

More spring!  I found these lovely plants around the corner from our neighborhood, hidden behind a few churches.  Three churches, actually, one right after the other, touching property lines...this is the Bible Belt. I wandered around on the property behind the first church, and here are some of the beautiful things I found.

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Purple fields forever...

Pale violets, hiding under a few leafless trees

A redbud tree

$1.23

Amos and I went to three book sales last month!  We got fifty books (including six audiobooks) and four CDs, and we spent $66.25, an average of $1.23 per item!  That is a the-garage-sale-is-closing-now-what-will-you-take-for-that-pile-of-junk price!  A quarter of the books will be going to other people, but here are a few pictures of some of my favorite finds.

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Streams in the Desert compiled by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, a devotional that I've seen referenced in several missionary biographies.

Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

More About Boy by Roald Dahl

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes, my favorite Moffat book!

The Moffats by Eleanor Estes, audiobook

Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry, illustrated by Wesley Dennis

Homer Price by Robert McCloskey

An unread copy of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg, complete with real Newbery Medal sticker!

Slowly springing

Spring is springing slowly...In the last week or so the Bradford pear trees have burst to bloom and tiny purple wildflowers have started to carpet yards and the shoulders of freeways.  Soon the redbuds will appear!

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