Accomplishment

Beauty

Love

Discovery

I found an angel sitting in a sea of tulips and hydrangeas. 

Attitude

Silence

My Dad

My Dad is the smartest man I know.  A short list of things my Dad has taught me:

* How to pay bills on time and keep a proper record of it.

* How to drive a car.

* How to show respect to others.

* How to be careful and cautious to keep myself safe no matter where I am.

* How to sing (yes, he's pretty good at it).

* How to have fun at parties/ be a great host.

* How to be welcoming.

* How to ride my bike.

* How to solve my most difficult math questions.

Photo Credit: My Dad

My Dad has recently expressed some interest in taking up sailing.  So, that is what I'm getting him this Father's Day: Sailing Lessons.

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." ~George Herbert 

"It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life." ~Dawn French

 "My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem." ~Gwyneth Paltrow

Happy Father's Day Dad! And, thank you for all that you do!

My First Peony

There was a single magenta flower on our peony bush that we planted last year.  Peonies are one of my favorite flowers (others being Hydrangeas and Lilacs).  I'm excited, none-the-less, since I've never had a flowering peony bush, and these flowers are hard to find in flower shops, not to mention expensive to buy.

More on this little bike to come later...♥

Long Weekend

I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend...I did! My family and I went zip-lining, kayaking, swimming, horse-back riding, and wine touring in and around the Niagara Falls region.  We ended the long weekend by watching the Victoria Day fireworks.  Quite fun. 

This is Bailey:

These were some of the horses that we rode; they are all saddled up and ready to go...

It was a pretty awesome weekend...

Hope you had fun too.

Springtime Hope & Beauty

I headed outside yesterday hoping to find some blooming trees...and found them...breath-taking pink blossoms.  This is my favorite thing about spring.  You gotta have perfect timing though, 'cause these blooms don't last too long and you may miss them. 

I went a little closer and looked up...I could lay down under this tree all day long.

Spring is so beautiful isn't it?  To me spring is about hope.  After the cold winter has subsided, the weather beings to warm up and with that my outlook on life brightens also.  I get a sense that things can only get better from here on. 

Afterwards, I headed down to the lake, only to be met with more magnificently beautiful things.   I made friends with these swans...

They were showing off their fabulous snow white plumage. 

If you're looking for hope, I suggest you head outside, I found it there.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.  ~Lin Yutang