The rains fell last night after 3 days of beautiful, heartwarming sun. As I was falling asleep, it came on strong, the windows were open and rain started falling. It sounded lovely, putting softley me to sleep. I took joy in that moment of feeling the wind come up, blowing in the clouds and hearing the hard drops of rain hit the ground.

Sunday morning we took a short hike in Hoyt Arboretum and met Gail and Pete at the Zoo. You'll have to see her blog for the photo's of little Sam the Elephant. All my photo's somehow were lost.....I don't really know how that happened. But that's okay, more importanly than photo's was the time spent with people I love. A few photo's from the hike magically made it through whatever I did.

A sweet "Wilson Magnolia". Karl dubbed it the "umbrella magnolia".

Grace and peace to you,

Sammy