Weekly bird in the hand

Just arrived home last night - to wet weather!  We're not used to that!

Here is this week's things I am grateful for - my "bird in the hand":

Photo by Dawn Huczek

• All the family and friends whom we caught up with in England, and had fun visiting with.  It was a great trip - full, but full of good times
• Seeing all the beautiful bright red poppies in the fields
• Finding a new artist and buying one of her paintings - Sasha Harding
• Safe transatlantic flights
• Being met at the airport by Angie and Marly
• The lovely welcome Harold (my parrot) gave us on our return. He was so cheery and welcoming.  It was obvious he has had a great time with Angie and Marly
• A good night's sleep
• Angie and Marly for looking after Harold and Birdland
• Buying a couple of new skirts in wonderful fabrics
• Seeing a pair of swans with their cute fluffly little signets
• Trying out clay pigeon shooting and target practice with an air rifle!
• Enjoying the picturesque village of Broadway

Hope you've had a great week too.

Sunshiny days

We had a sunny day!!! Yippee!  Yes, it's been a little grey and rainy here in England but our final day was warm and sunny.  There we were, out in only shirt sleeves! No jackets or raincoats or sweaters....We had a lovely day in Broadway, doing a bit of shopping. Broadway is such a pretty Cotswold town - so picturesque.

But we fly back to California today after a busy couple of weeks. It's been a great trip and we've enjoyed all our visiting and catching up.

We're not sure whether we'll be flying back to sunshine as it's been drizzly in CA recently too!  Maybe my sunshiny bangle will help bring the sunshine out? What do you think? I showed you the pink and blue ones last week and this is the third in the summery series.

The three different colors make me think of a sweetie shop....quite mouth watering. What do you reckon?