May your weekend be full of rainbows, sunshine and smiling faces!!!

On a recent ride, we came across this beautiful rainbow!!  (yes, I am learning...always travel with your camera on hand).  So...for this weekend, we send you rainbows, sunshine, smiling faces, sparkles and sweetness.  May the beauty of this world of ours leave you awestruck!!!

Happy Weekending!!

xo Twig and Toadstool

Our Rainbow Gnome giveaway ends on Sunday at Midnight!!   If you haven't already, please go and enter by leaving a comment HERE.  If you are a follower of our blog, you can enter daily...don't be shy y'all...our little gnomes need a new home...and we'll send them to any destination in the world!!  The winner will be announced on Monday morning!!!!

P.S. In the past few weeks, we've had a few new friends join up...we'd like to send you out a big Twig and Toadstool welcome and a huge virtual ((((HUG))))!  We hope you enjoy your stay here at the Toadstool, and we welcome your feedback!!

Next week is "Here Comes the Sun" week...we'll be doing lots of SUN related crafts and the such, to get us ready for Summer Solstice, (June 21st)...It may not be a big deal to you to welcome the sun, but when you are a Canadian mom, dealing with about 8 months of cold, we LOVE the sun, and we welcome her with style!!  We'll see you Monday!!!

Image of the week...

We long for the cows to come back in the spring...last week they came, around the stone fence to enjoy the pasture that lies to one side of our house.  Today, in honour of the cow, a poem...

The Cow

The friendly cow, all red and white,

I love with all my heart;

She gives me cream with all her might,

To eat with apple tart.

She wanders lowing here and there,

And yet she cannot stray,

All in the pleasant open air,

The pleasant light of day;

And blown by all the winds that pass

And wet with all the showers,

She walks among the meadow grass

And eats the meadow flowers.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Enjoy the beauty that surrounds you!!!

Maureen

Image of the week...and a poem...

What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs

And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see in broad daylight,

Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,

And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can

Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this if, full of care

We have no time to stand and stare.

-W.H. Davies

Image of the week...

"The heart of the person before you is a mirror.  See there your own form."

-Socrates