Slice of Life Post for March 22, 2024

Yesterday my morning began with prepping the lower meeting room at the Keokuk Art Center so volunteers could help paint canvas squares. Students are painting individual “tattooed hearts” on each square. Then their squares will be arranged to create a beautiful mural for an up-and-coming Pocket Park in downtown Keokuk. I wrote a grant last summer to help pay for the expenses, but I will most likely need to seek more funding to support this project. The big expense is at the end when the mural will be hung. In the meantime, I’m anxious to see the student work. Our theme for this project is “Be the Beauty in Your Community.” The beauty here is the generous time and efforts donated by volunteers such as the lovely ladies in my photograph.

After I left work, I purchased an ice cream cake from the DQ in Hamilton, Illinois. We took it to my son’s home to celebrate his 4-year anniversary and my husband’s birthday. I had Happy “4” & “74” written on the cake, and of course, I forgot to take a picture of it. Nuts! It was cute and delicious.

Our grandson was full of smiles, bubbly and sweet. He’s been struggling with illnesses this last month. He had RSV, a viral infection, and an ear infection. Poor kid. He’ll be nine months in six days.

On the way home, an amazing sun was setting. After parking, I immediately took a photo of both the sun and moon. Notice the difference between the color of each sky. I did nothing to saturate color, etc.

My cell phone camera can only do so much, but these two photos were taking thirty seconds from each other.

Today I’m still busy, it’s cool and gloomy here today, but my sister who lives two hours away had quite a bit of snow this morning.

Since it is supposed to be spring, I decided to revise a haiku have been playing with. I am fond of this draft.

     snow erases
               mother's name
                            joy and spring

Barb Edler
22 March 2024