Just Because ♥

No special reason, just because I saw these two painting that are so different,

 I like them.

I think the sweet little violets make this painting. 

The entire painting says it but the "busy hands" complete the meaning for me.   Downloaded from a gal in Portugal.

Soon we will be heading back to Clara and our little farm by the creek.  I love being with our kids and their families.  Each one of their homes hold a special place in my heart.  Even though they are hundreds of miles apart we are lucky to have two great places to visit and the joy of one living next door to us.  Like the two pictures above, different but still beautiful. Our 3 kids are all different but perfect and beautiful to us.  OK!  Most of the time.  Let's not forget we are all human, have our own personalities that don't always agree with the other.  Life, family and friends are not perfect and we "all" have to work at understanding.  You don't have to understand someone, just understand yourself and it will fall into place.

The last two days here will be in the 70's.  Then we will be leaving in time to get home before the big storm.  If predictions are correct, I hope they are miss calling this one.  Enough!  We are ready to get home and check out our favorite leek patches, hoping the little ones are starting to show their true color.......green.  Nothing prettier than "spring green".  We have 12 pounds of leek butter to make and freeze for next winter, leeks for the freezer, 10 pints to pickle and 10 pints in mustard sauce.  I will be posting our favorite leek recipes as we do them.  Then we will dig some to ship to our favorite "leek lovers' in New Mexico.  That is the easy dig  we don't clean them, just wrap, box and ship!
Now I said nothing prettier than spring green.  I will say the prettiest song of spring is
"Old Mr. Gobbler"  gobbling for his woman, two or three.  About 12 years ago I fell in love with spring gobbler hunting and have been lucky to shoot a few.  Not in recent years because I have no desire to shoot them but I do like going out and calling them in.  They are amazing birds, elusive until they get foolish in peak mating season.  I could insert a few jokes here but I won't.  This year the camera will go with me.
What better way to "Pass it On"?  Since retirement I am not a fan of getting up before daylight.  Most hunters like to be in the woods when it is still dark as to not flush the birds.  They like to have them on roost. Not only am I not a fan of getting up early........I'm not fond of being in the woods when it is dark.  I wait just til it is getting light out, by the time I get to the wood line I am good to go for seeing what is around me.  Most mornings it is cold and frosty.  Impatiently watching the sun come over the hill and wishing it would hurry and shine on me.  Of course the warm sun melts the frost on the trees and drips cold water on me.  Probably by now some are thinking, "no way".  That's how much I enjoy being in the woods during spring gobbler.  I usually stay 3-4 hours waiting and calling.  In the years I have seen lots of deer, turkey, squirrel, a couple coyotes and 1 bear.  The bear scared the heck out of me.  It never saw me, thankfully!  This year I will have a hunting partner.  That is "if" we can hunt together without too much "I know it all" attitude.  I'm talking about both of us.  Maybe that's the plan to watch Cheryl stomp away.