On Reading and Walking - Missoula, Montana

I appreciated the deft connecting in this quote of two favourite things - well-written books and long walks producing layered good results (including some lovely spring things).
 "She told me once, when we read a story, we inhabit it. 
 The covers of the books are like a roof and four walls.
 A house.
 She, more than anything else in the world, loved the moment when you finished a book, and the story keeps playing like the most vivid dream in your head. 
 And after that, she loved taking long walks to clear her mind of all the emotions and feelings the book had started within her."
-Opening lines of movie The Bookshop, based on 1978 novel by Penelope Fitzgerald

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Favourite Things For Father's Day - Missoula, Montana

At our house, a cup of hot coffee counts as a heartfelt "I love you!". (And if it's for The Best Husband (& Dad) Ever, please be sure it's hot hot hot!)

Happy Father's Day to worthy - & aspiring & trying-harder - dads out there.

A Few of My Favourite Things: Rocks & Weathered Wood

For  a good part of my life, I've been picking up nifty rocks. In my younger years, I wasn't allowed to take them home. Adulthood has freed the fetish.  I remember finding a couple flat, slatey stones - perfect additions to my emerging walkway - on a river walk with my muscley nephew, M., & convincing him that we could both easily carry one back, since we were less than a mile from the car.

Weathered grey wood evokes steadfastness, perseverance - aged homesteads, still standing; cedar-shingled beach cottages, shelters from coastal winds. 
The old cedar plank pictured here was a gift from previous owners of our little Hamilton house. It's a great 3-season place to sit & practise guitar, enjoying the front-yard flowers, saying "hi" to strolling neighbors.