It's Sunday and it is a beautiful day. The words are weaving and the heart is growing softer, I can almost feel the sprinkling of magic covering me. You say it just another day? The love I carry with me and the blessings handed out so freely make every day special. So many things about this world are running on a negative spin, but many out there have banded together to make this time count towards a positive outcome. I am touched by the way kindness has just radiated outward, giving to those in need, opening up their hearts and homes. Can we please do this kind thing all year round?
Out of the clouds of obscurity did you come
Leaving the drops on some, and others none
Revealing her beauty in its most natural state
Stealing my perception
Of what's wrong and right
Shrouded this morning in a blanket of dew
Refreshing the state of dear Mother Nature
A gentle trickle of the spring rolls down, seeking a place to deposit its water. This has been an abundant week, almost too much. Enough water to drive little tiny ants indoors, thankfully the 30 little specs kept to the counter near the sink. I actually spied two of them as I was going off to bed last night, and this morning, they brought a few of their best friends. They seem to have found greener pastures to explore, however, I cannot say that I will miss them or want them back anymore.
They missed pie and ice cream, sorry to say... I am sure that might have encouraged them to stay at least one more day. The pie was delicious, apple this time. I think that the strawberries will be the very next. Have you ever made a strawberry pie? There is jam to be made, and some fruit to be frozen. For leaner days when there is no fruit. Sounds good, right?
The later days of Spring continue the beauty afforded by nature, and it is purely sublime. How can it be any other way? Today is a #BeautifulSunday by @Ace108, where we share our day in the most possibly beautiful way that we can. How can one refute the beauty of nature, laying at our feet? I am having the best of days, a definite #SublimeSunday in the making, by the Meister of my morning, @c0ff33a. I do love my @c0ff33 and he likes eclectic! A definite match, made in heaven. I want to thank @ace108 and @c0ff33a for hosting these fun challenges! Check them out!
I wanted to take a moment to wish each of you a wonderful week ahead. May the good things in life be yours in abundance, not only on special days of the year but every other day too. Sometimes, we have to just stop and appreciate our many hidden blessings, for this allows us to have a truly grateful heart. May your tomorrow and the days that follow be filled with the warmth of the season. It was 83 degrees (29C) here today, so there is plenty of warm to go around.
A little gravy, some call it sauce, made with love. An abundance of hot Italian sausage, meatballs made just the way the family loves them, pieces of leftover pork thrown in... simmered most of the day... Do you call it sauce or gravy or even ragu? Oh, it is an age-old discussion on the East Coast.
Some Italians will tell you that gravy was a term that their grandmother used for Sunday sauce because it is what they served at big family gatherings after mass. If someone said, “where’s the gravy?” they were looking for the sauce or topping. Geography has probably played a large role in the debate about where the term gravy came from. Early immigrants eager to assimilate to their American counterparts may have adopted the term gravy on the East Coast – we’ve all heard the term Brooklyn Gravy. source
After dinner, I planted some caladium and impatients. They are small, but, they are pretty fast growers! We will check their progress in a few weeks.
The peonies were absolutely amazing this year! Their perfume is deliciously elegant, although people are known to get headaches from them. My house smells like a florist shop tonight. Although it has been a fabulous day, it is time to call it! Thanks for coming along on my #beautifulsunday, it doesn't get any better than to be surrounded by love and breaking bread with each other! And just like that, this post is over! Come back tomorrow and we will do it again! Have a great week ahead!
All I have are my words, armed in my mind, written in pen, stand by stand. Oh, yes. Still by hand. It has a different feel. Altered not by keys, backspace, and delete, I write, erase, tear it to pieces and start all over again. And again.
It’s my way. I walk out to the deep end of the page and dive right in.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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Now that you ask, I do not remember even eating one. I ate apple pie, cherry pie, but I do not remember eating a strawberry pie, let alone making it. I love strawberry. It is one of my favorite fruits. So probably I will try it in the near future.
Have a nice day. All the best. Greetings and much love from Hungary.
I think you should try one! It will surprise you, perhaps. I hope you are doing well and apologize for not getting over to your place. I can't seem to finish here many days as it has been busy, but, my time will come soon enough! )
Have a great week ahead!
Happy new week ma and your Italian sauce came out so well and looking yummy. Thank you for sharing with us ma. You are the best
Thank you so much, the sauce was awesome and there is leftovers for later in the week!
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Can you see, that there's no difference between the two? Both wonderful and positive words. Both vibrating with truthful meaning.
And to think you don't make anyone's day... poppycock! Have a wonderful beginning to your week...
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Hi, Wes!! It is all about the positives, isn't it? Thank you so much for spreading the positive vibes around!
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Have a great week ahead!
Love all your pictures as they are so refreshing and vibrant. I also love how you spend your day. It is beautiful and full of positive energy, Sweetie. Wish you a great start to the new week.
Thanks so much for the uplifting comment @trangbaby ! As one positive to another, you totally get it.
I hope you are having a great week ahead! Nice to see you! ❤️
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Oh it is sauce in my book, no doubt about it. Gravy goes on biscuits or taters.
Of course! I never doubted you and the gravy for one moment. 😁 I have a feeling that gravy is white.
Just saying.
Good morning from here.
I don’t think I have ever made or eaten a strawberry pie but fresh homemade strawberry jam is just the best
As fir pies apple is my favorite and your one looks so good
Strawberry jam is the best! I even like to mix it, say strawberry and kiwi or strawberry and peach. I make mostly strawberry because it is still the best! :)
What
AmericanKiwi doesn't love apple pie?I hope you are having a great week!
MY Mum used to make the best Strawberry Jam, I would devour it layer it on thicker than the toast if no one was watching LOL
I will resist talking about Kiwifruit and Kiwi LOL
I have tried Strawberry and Peach but never Strawberry with either Kiwi or Kiwifruit LOL
I like to get adventurous and mix the fruits for the jam. Now, I do like to have just one fruit, but, when I have a little of this and that, I will mix it. Always a winner!
Thank you so much @dswigle for the wonderful happy and loving wishes to us all. Yes, we need to be a bit kinder to all in our surroundings even to Mother Nature. And send out positive vibes to all.
The apple pie looks so delicious. The gravy is in our area just sauce or even pasta sauce.
Have a wonderful and kind start of this new week yourself with all the best wishes and blessings 🤗🥰😊 have a great week!
Good morning from here!
The areas where Italians came years and years ago have kept many of the homeland traits or integrated them. My Godmother was from Milan and my Godfather was from Calabria and both of them called it gravy. My own mother called it sauce, so really, it is the same thing. The only thing it had to be was homemade, from the finest ingredients! :) of that, they were united in thought.
My wish would be that there is more love in the world than we know what to do with. I ask you, is that too much to ask?
Good day @dswigle almost midday now 😉☀️
That’s lovely that those things remained 🥰
Yes, I so agree with them. It needs to have fresh and good ingredients and be homemade. No other way.
No, that is surely not to much asked for, I wish the same. Let’s bring our message out, our thoughts into the ether… so it starts to vibrate LOVE 🥰
It turned out to be an absolutely beautiful day yesterday! At least until the clouds rolled back in and ruined the lunar eclipse. Ah well. NASA did it's thing for me.
Right? Why only at Christmas?
My strawberry bushes have all sorts of flowers on them. Soon I shall have strawberries; my end goal is likely to be home made ice cream with them, though, and not pie.
My end goal is strawberry jam, and a little strawberry rhubarb... and perhaps strawberry/blueberry jam... peach... so many options!
But, yummy! Strawberry ice cream?
I couldn't believe it ruined the eclipse! Boo! But, yes. Nasa...Still, I sat with my camera, waiting, in case there was an opening.
Sauce ! Never heard it called gravy around here, but of course, I haven't heard everything... have I ?
It certainly is flower time. I am a little behind. I still need a few more.
Peonies certainly do smell wonderful. Even after they start to wilt, they still smell good for so long !
"They" say ants learn and if they find an area or something edible that kills a lot of them they will leave it alone. Interesting theory,...right ? Last year I saw one.....then another near the kitchen sink of course. I killed them, wiped them away and washed down the area. Within a day or two I got up to an ant party. I sprayed them with window cleaner (closest thing at hand and kills them pretty instantly).... and left them for a few days. (THAT was hard to do), but then I cleaned it all up and never saw another ant the rest of the summer in my kitchen.
Weird... right ?
I would say that most call it sauce. Maybe even a few more than that. In New England, also areas where Italians migrated midcentury, many had kept many of the words, and sayings, of their homeland traits or integrated them. My Godmother was from Milan and my Godfather was from Calabria and both of them called it gravy. My own mother called it sauce, so really, it is the same thing. The only thing it had to be was homemade, from the finest ingredients! :) of that, they were united in thought.
I am in Peony heaven right now! It is the most delightful place!
I have to admit, the story of the ants is really interesting! I just saw two this morning, so I may do that and leave their tiny little ant bodies behind. (eww!) That is just gross, but, ant in the house? Worse. Thank you for the tip! I will give it a try!
Have a great day and a wonderful week ahead!
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I first read the ant thing regarding using borax, where you put some borax in some jelly or something sweet and leave it out for them. It said don't put too much, because if it killed them instantly, the others would not take it back to the nest and they would quit eating it. I guess it's like the poison apple, if someone takes a bite and drops dead, nobody else around wants a bite ! LOL.. I guess another ant or two has to come see the dead bodies first..... and who knows, will it work again? I am so opposed to using poison in my kitchen that I just had to try it. Annoying little critters.
The pie looks great. I guess the sauce should work for pasta.
The pie was delicious! Who doesn't love a little pie? Yes, it worked great! I made spaghetti last night and it was the perfect sauce!
Good morning from here, Ace! @ace108
That's good dinner.
Off to my good morning here.
Thanks for visiting.
Have a good day
Thanks Ace!
You're welcome
Hi @dswigle .Happy start of week ! Hope you have a productive and full-of-love week ahead. Thanks for your encouraging words: Yes , beauty is there everywhere despite the horrors we live everyday in the world.
I would call that " sauce". BTW, that looks yummy as most of the things you show. Thanks
I do have a productive week lined up! Now let's see if the universe is going to cooperate!
I agree, there is love everywhere, we just need to slow down and see it. The horror of what is going on in our world is more than unsettling. It is making it harder to pull the positive out of some people.
Sauce! :) Most people do call it sauce. I say call it whatever, as long as it is with the freshest ingredients!
I hope you have a great week ahea!
As it is tomato-based, "sauce."
In any event, it looks delicious ... as does that pie. 😋
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The Italians that migrated over years ago called it both. My Godmother was from Milan and my Godfather was from Calabria and both of them called it gravy. My own mother called it sauce, so really, it is the same thing. The only thing it had to be was homemade, from the finest ingredients! :) Of that, they were united in thought.
I changed over to sauce years ago, but, slip back to the gravy when I go back home.
I have been looking for an update on all the Quillfires! You dashed off on to personal business and I just wanted to make sure all was as well as could be?
Love the flowers..love the food. You had a very good Sunday there 😁
very beautiful words and some pictures of flowers and pictures of very good gravy, it looks like the gravy has a very good taste.
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Pass the gravy momma, then the apple pie and cream. Molto bein! 😂👍
I haven't seen you since Sunday !
Are you on vacation again ?? I came to see if you posted and I missed it, but no !
It's ok if you have a vacation or a staycation or a hivecation.... as long as all is ok and you are happy.
Hmmm... if this is a duplicate comment... sorry!
How are you?
Where are you, lovely @dswigle !