The scent of rain.

I love the natural scent of a rainy day.  It is refreshing & loaded with ions & bursting with promise. {Silently the seeds have waited.}

I took these two little bars of soap outside to shoot them on the cedar bench.  The light refracted just so and I felt a pang of happy. {The soaps a gift from the person I consider a gift.}

I drove to a popular bakery to pick up a chocolate birthday cake with buttercream frosting & pink and purple butterflies on it...for a very popular girl who celebrates her tenth birthday today. Along the way I noticed how life has burst into being here...the wind is warm despite the rain, the trees are saturated with greens and it is those two things alone that make me pause to count my lucky stars.  {I love noticing these things-there is so much redolent in the noticing.}

I'm off to a party.  {The best kind-fraught with cheese pizza, balloons, cake and games.}  ...and to think ten years ago becoming a mother was going to turn out to be the best mother's day gift I was ever given.

So there you have random Saturday thoughts.  See you again soon with another freshly pressed photo and in the meantime I tweet right here.  {Follow!}

xo

 

Comments

[Preeti Shenoy]

Oh I too love love love the scent of rain! :)

Beautiful picture as always!

[pam aries]

you are lovely and rich as a chocolate cake.

[Tara Bradford]

Love the photo - and you! Enjoy the party and the fabulous birthday girl and Mother's Day. xoxox

[elizabeth]

Cheese pizza, balloons, cake, and games sound perfect for every age. And now I want pizza myself. :)

[Steve]

Sounds like a great start to a great day!

[gemma]

Sending the very best birthday wishes to O
and many good wishes to you for Mothers day
and every day....

[Debi]

Fabulous photo! Happy birthday to your no longer baby baby. Eat cake - enjoy!!

xoxo

[gillian]

I did, and I did. (Ate it and enjoyed it.)

Thanks for loving my photo. I love it too. It is a piece of my soul. Simple. Full of dreamyness (not dreaminess) and well, gratitude. Soap, who'dve thunk it?

xo
(Such a pretty little thing.)

[Donna]

Lovely. You. Photo. Birthday. Mother's Day.

[Liz]

the light = exquisite, use of the word redolent = so lovely... thanks for your visit and you're beautiful words... xo

[Stephanie]

What a gift...a mothers day baby!!!

Happiest of both to you!!

x..x

[Marilyn]

Fig of Provence and Cherry Blossom soap, how special. I hope the party was everything your 10 year old wanted and more.

[susanna's sketchbook]

Happy Birthday to your daughter, Gillian. And a Happy Belated Mother's Day to you, too! What a happy weekend you both had. :)

[Yoli]

There is nothing like being a mother. It is the best gift the universe can bestow upon us.

[Gillian]

Yoli
I agree, yet it is the toughest job. One that goes far too underappreciated.

Mother's rule the world. :)

[~Sheila~]

I remember that day 10 years ago, and get quite emotional. It was a very special day.

[Lori S.]

MMMMMM, the smell of rain. One of my favorites!