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SNAP 5: A Walk Through the Park

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Our unseasonably warm weather has continued. Today is supposed to break all the records, but then winter will be returning again. While it's been warm, we've been walking outside nearly every day. Yesterday we walked through Highland Park. Not much in the way of signs of spring, but we always enjoy walking through the Poet's Garden. It was first planted in 1916 to honor the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. We found a bench inscribed with that date as we walked along the path. The original plants were among those mentioned by Shakespeare in his writings. Many of those plants did not survive, so over the years new plants, trees, and shrubs have been planted. Later in the spring, I'll take another walk through do another collection.

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The quote by Shakespeare on the plaque reads:

                                                                                                                      And this our life exempt from public haunt
                                                                                               Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
                                                                                               Sermons in stones and good in everything.
                                                                                                                                                                               from As You Like It

It's already been a lot of fun checking out the collections for SNAP linked to Helena's blog, and this week is sure to be interesting as well.

  

The January Edition of the Christmas Journal

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Unfortunately, there's also going to be a couple of February Editions as well. Despite my best intentions, the Christmas Journal still has some pages to go. On a positive note, they are all planned out, so it's just a matter of printing photos, journaling, and embellishing. (Well, that is quite a lot!) The following pages were actually completed in December, and I thought I had posted them but have recently discovered that was not the case. So here is the next installment.

Dec12

Most amazing of all, is that we're in the midst of another warm spell right now. Yesterday I went to the store without a coat!

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In order to accommodate the spread for December 13, I needed a filler page.The top is a piece of gold dotted acrylic with some Thickers added. For the bottom slot, I used a piece of Papertrey Ink's "Stars Scribbled" paper and added some letter stickers, then adhered it to a piece of gold foil paper.

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On the 13th, we heard Poulenc's Gloria in church, sung by our amazing choir, led by an equally amazing director of music, as well as our "new" assistant organist who is uber-talented. (It helps to live in the same city as the Eastman School of Music!) That afternoon we went to see "Brooklyn," which I loved, and I used the journaling spot to record a list of the many movies we saw from Thanksgiving on.

Dec14

At this point I was still committed to a page for every day (I later gave that up!) and chose to write about my intention to capture photos of my day out with my friends, but it just didn't happen. My niece, Grace, did seem to like her scarf.

Dec15

The next day I was out on the canal with another group of friends. We make it look like it was very cold, but actually it was just really windy.

Dec16

This will go down as one of my favorite spreads. Betsy is sitting on a board for a charitable organization, and a group of them meeting once a month for an early morning meeting. I get to be there to play with the girls when they get up, get them breakfast (if they want it) and just enjoy a laid-back morning. Skylar and Ella get along so well together, it just a pleasure to babysit. The selfie was Skylar's idea and it might be one of the first I've ever taken that I thought was pretty good!

I've got way too many "irons in the fire" right now, but finishing the Christmas Journal is at the top of the list! Hope to be back soon with more.