Trekking and Treasures

My Rambling this weekend took me up to my daughter's to spend time with her and family and to just relax and enjoy ourselves and for her to help me draft a dress pattern...

We drove up in a storm and then enjoyed the storm for the remainder of the evening while sitting on her deck and drinking wine. I love storms. I went out to take photos of the clouds and my ears were was assailed by a cacophony of teeny tiny frogs singing. I would like to have gotten a recording of it but since I couldn't you will have to imagine it. The amazing thing about it was the tiny size of the frogs and the loud sound. They only did it the one night while it was storming...

The following evening gave us some amazing cloud formations and colors but no storm. That meant we could swim so after a day in her studio drafting and sewing a sloper from unwanted fabric and a light dinner and some photographs we spent the remainder of the evening enjoying the clouds and water. No frogs singing this night'

On Sunday we trekked over to see my grand daughter's new home that they bought just before they got married. It is a very old house with lots of work to get it up to par but they are young and the house is worth it.  I loved the tree I spotted from the back porch.. Trees are among my favorite things to photograph. I wonder why the trunk  grew this way. Mother Nature does such marvelous things with her creations.

While we were there said grand daughter gave me two hanging lights to do with as I please...One is going to go on the back lanai to replace a shabby one I have now and the other one is either going to be turned into bits and pieces for an assemblage or some type of art project or I am giving it to my son ...will decide later after I get a good look at both. 

My grand daughter's hubby works for a company that is remodeling their space so he had these fan blades he thought might fit their fans but they don't so I am the recipient of those. There are 15 of them...I haven't decided what to do with them yet but one fun thing would be to paint Florida themed pictures on each one and use them for art in the garden wall (fence).

After leaving grand daughter's home we trekked over to my grandson's home for a short visit and to pick up a supply of my favorite coffee that they get for me at Costco. Our nearest Costco is a 2 hour drive.

Before we left for home my daughter gave me this lovely little gift of 4 stones to represent her and her siblings that she had tangled on with a marker. There are two brown and two black stones to signify my two sons and two daughters.

We had a wonderful time but it was nice to get home.