Splendid banner, Allison. Congratulations on your first.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
Just a gorgeous flash of red color--- and that lively little bird! Love it
"My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird β equal seekers of sweetness. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished." β Mary Oliver, from Messenger