The Mayfield-Toman-Smith year in review:
songs, pictures, a few words
2017 ~ a raging year full of stories, growth, quiet change. fewer tears, a few more smiles.
miles and miles of beaches ~ St. George's Island ~ Belize.
a few mountains ~ the Smokies, the Rockies.
a Chinese adventure for Trey (with Gentry, of course!)
hundreds and hundreds of Lawrence walks ~ along the river, along Mass Street, weaving in and out of the neighborhood I love.
Our Gambrel Cottage rambling towards some sort of completion (kitchen, theater, front porch complete with a swing, downstairs bathroom, white stone gardenwall and flagstone paths, tons of baby fish in the pond, an herb garden). We still have a 100 small things that need attention but the big things are mostly done and I can make dinner at home again (or I can walk with my family to get wings at Minsky's or hamburgers at Hank and Sully's)!
Trey's decided to get his hands dirty and has rented a garage. He is converting vintage VW's to electric and has started with a Karmann Ghia and a Doka. Now every weekend he comes home with grease under his fingernails (and sometimes smudged on his cheek) ~ a big thanks to Cherry Bomb :)
Ella is growing, shifting, becoming (writing, drawing, snapping pictures, singing songs, questioning, wondering). She spent some of her summer at Sewanee in Tennessee, with a journal in her hand attending her first writer's workshop. She is halfway through her sophomore year and blowing me away with her dedication, talent and creativity.
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| Ella ~ January, 2017 |
Our Gambrel Cottage ~ always a work in progress
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| The Master Bathroom |
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| Skimming the walls |
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| Ella on the porch swing, Summer 2017 |
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| Our backyard, spring 2017 |
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| sunset on St. George's Island ~ spring break 2017 |
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| feet in the sand ~ spring break 2017 St. George's Island, Fl |
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| kicking back in Belize ~ June, 2017 our belated HONEYmoon |
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| Belize ~ June, 2017 |
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| Mayan ruins |
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| feeling relaxed on Caye Caulker |
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| new porch residents ~ July, 2017
Sometimes it is time to say goodbye ~ throughout July I worked alongside my family to prepare for a huge estate sale ~ it was time to release decades and 3 generations of collections, baubles and bits ~ Dad sold the farm in early August. It was hard work and some tears were shed but it is a weight off of all our shoulders.
Life changes but love is never forgotten. |
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| Ella's Cicada Art ~ August, 2017 (no cicadas were harmed but a few graves may have been disturbed) |
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| Watchi hanging out with the koi ~ summer garden 2017 |
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| finding the beginning of the rainbow ~ August 2017 Pike's Peak |
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| Trey's Doka ~ little trip to Quebec, November 2017 craziest road trip home EVER! |
And if you want a happy life? In this moment, yes this one, be happy! There is no such thing as a "happy" life, but in the moment ~ that is where you find happiness.
May 2018, for you and yours, be full of happy moments ;)
Love and hugs -
The Mayfield-Toman-Smiths
