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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.  




Ella ~ January, 2017

Our Gambrel Cottage ~ always a work in progress


The Master Bathroom

Skimming the walls

Ella on the porch swing, Summer 2017


Our backyard, spring 2017



















sunset on St. George's Island ~ spring break 2017




feet in the sand ~ spring break 2017
St. George's Island, Fl








kicking back in Belize ~ June, 2017
our belated HONEYmoon

Belize ~ June, 2017

Mayan ruins

feeling relaxed on Caye Caulker

















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.











Ella's Cicada Art ~ August, 2017
(no cicadas were harmed but a few graves may have been disturbed)



Watchi hanging out with the koi ~ summer garden 2017


























finding the beginning of the rainbow ~ August 2017
Pike's Peak













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







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