♥Summertime Moments ♥ Simple Joys

Hello Lovelies,

here's a post full of simple things I'm appreciating right now. 

The sentiments in my gorgeous Katie Daisy calendar........this is actually June's image......my favourite....but all the paintings are beautiful and the words uplifting............

Pretty pink Gerberas, these little pot plants are £1 at the supermarket right now.....they make me happy.........

Summertime festivals with stunning fireworks..........we didn't go but loved watching the display from a distance..............

Look, there's a pink heart in the sky :0)

Using my patchwork Peg Bag...........I think this may be the most useful thing I've ever made.......it works so well and always makes me smile...........

Simple food...........I'm not a very enthusiastic cook....I wish I was.....but I love that I'm good at producing a tasty roast dinner, from scratch, that my whole family really enjoys..............

Crochet by the bed.........My first ever mandala  is currently under my bedside lamp and I think it looks great there...........

Natures Colours, just wonderful...........

I do hope you are finding simple joys in your life too lovelies.

Jacquie x

♥ Summertime Moments ♥ A Tranquil Evening

Hello Lovelies,

the days are already getting shorter and this year we haven't spent any evenings at the country park.

Yesterday we finally managed a visit, though it was about half past eight when we arrived and the sun was nearly setting...........

It was one of those beautiful still and pleasantly warm evenings. Hardly anybody else was around and it felt so tranquil.......

Wild Carrot

I loved the clouds reflected in the lake.............

and the golden glow from the setting sun............

We walked around the waters edge..........

To the huge open space where the boys could fly their model planes.

Home made ones you just throw............

and a battery powered one that soars and swoops with a little buzz through the still evening air..........

It's just above the moon.

Sadly the home made one took a heavy landing and got broken.........that shattered the tranquillity for a while.

Time to head to the play park.........just us here too, lovely............

After the boys ( and their dad)  had finished climbing,  sliding and swinging we walked back past the lake.

Where Swans glided gracefully through the dusk...............

By now the lights had come on at the visitor centre and I loved the way they illuminated these Teasels...........

Time to go home.
It was a perfect summers evening and I'm so glad we got outdoors as a family to enjoy it.
Jacquie x

♥ Summertime Moments ♥ Gentle Walks

Hello Lovelies,

most evenings have been gorgeous this week and I've taken the opportunity to go for a gentle walk before dusk falls.

The geraniums in the roadside planters positively glow in the fading light......

The allotments are full of produce..........

and the fields bare after the harvest.............

The days are getting shorter once more and the sun peeps through a low gap in the trees..........

A Robin hops along the bottom of the hedge, looking for his supper............

And I pass the old church with it's patchwork of different stone work...............

A local history book I found in the library this week tells me it was built in the 11th century.

 We may still have some lovely long weeks of school holidays stretching out before us, and seaside jolly's to look forward to, but mother nature is already moving from flowers to fruit..............

How fast this year is speeding past.
Best make the most of August.

Jacquie x

♥ Summertime Moments ♥ Gentle Days

Hello Lovelies,

I can't say how much I love these summer days at home, with no work or school routine to worry about.

It's not always been this way. When I had three very small boys they were HARD WORK.....but now they are wonderful and I'm savouring them.

The harvest continues, bales appear and then disappear from the fields...........

The weather has been warm and still. Perfect for the boys to fly their home-made balsa wood planes.......

Wear flip flops...........

And skate board.............

Thanks to the boys getting a holiday "job" watering a friends garden we are enjoying picking fresh tomatoes...........

 And gazing at their gorgeous flowers...........

Days out have been simple and relatively inexpensive. We all enjoyed THIS slightly scary but actually very safe and well run new activity.

But a visit to the ice rink means a sit down to watch and enjoy a little reading for me....I'm scared of falling over on the rock hard ice....not to mention all those metal blades waiting to get your fingers when you do!

This lovely  book was recommended to me and I was so happy to find it in my local library earlier this week. Read about it HERE

These days summer holidays are such a happy mix of family fun and time for myself. When you wake to sunshine and you don't have to worry about small children it's wonderful to get outside in the early light .

I've been going for a short run before breakfast....well it's a one mile gentle jog really. Plenty of time to take my little camera and stop to capture the wonderful light...............

And pretty summer flowers that spill out of front gardens...........

This gorgeous lacy Hydrangea has been making me smile all week..............

So pretty.................

Happy times indeed.
Jacquie x

♥ Summertime Moments ♥ Dovedale

Hello Lovelies,

gosh I've been sooooo tempted to spend hours recording every detail of this family outing. 

But I'm just going to let the photos do the talking.

Why not click on the first and view them in the lightbox....you wont miss any words till the end :0)

Dovedale on a hot summers morning was magical. The cool shade under the trees, the sounds of the sparkling river Dove. The fresh greens everywhere, the wild flowers, the places for boys to play.
The photo's don't do it justice. If you get the opportunity just go. But go early.....it's a deservedly popular spot.

Jacquie x