soeurs du jour

love thursday

this is my teddy, he's 55 years old, just like me.

he leans against a photo of me kissing my then two year old middle son.

i took this photo from my chair, sitting in my office.

happy love thursday.

margie

Love Thursday

Baby Love.   She didn't leave him for a second.

There's nothing better than being guided by someone who loves you.

Happy Love Thursday.

xo

Kath

Love Thursday

The soeurs du jour were together last Sunday.   

We found this candelabra in an antique store.  

Sisters shooting a love thursday shot together.

We love being together.

The five dollar candelabra is in margie's kitchen. 

Happy love thursday kids.

the soeurs du jour 

xo

Love Thursday

I was getting ready to write this post, pouring over contact sheets looking for an appropriate photograph.   I had narrowed it down, but none of the photos really made me proud or happy.
I was weary and feeling uninspired. 

BB looked at me inquiringly and I said, "Love Thursday, my love." 

He could tell that I was struggling and said, "I'll do it for you"   He went outside for a few minutes, came in, grabbed the camera and the tripod.   A little while later he returned to me and handed me the camera.   He is definitely not a shutter sister, but he is a great shutter mister. 

This is BB's contribution to Love Thursday, the photo is as beautiful as his generous heart. 

I love Chinese Lanterns in this state, where the plump ripe seed is sitting inside its lacy cage waiting patiently to fall to the ground.

Happy Love Thursday my friends.

Kath

love thursday

last week shutter sisters wanted us to look for hearts, hidden hearts.

i looked in my photos and i found them, all over the place.  

hidden love.

i even found some hearts beating together.

happy love thursday, a sweet year to all of you.

thank you to shutter sisters for reminding us to heart the love in our photos and lives every thursday.

margie

Love Thursday

The heart in this photo is hidden, you can't see it.
 It is in the person who made this marker in love and remembrance.

I was on a walk with BB and this caught my eye. I stared at it for a very long time before the realization dawned on me that I was standing at the resting place of a beloved pet.

 It reminded me of my own beautiful dog who isn't with us anymore.

I shed a little tear for both the unknown dog and my Chester too.

Happy Love Thursday

Kath

love thursday

love thursday snuck up on me.  i had nothing planned but yesterday i took this photo, which is slightly fuzzy and out of focus but sure enough there was a heart.  i hesitated to use it, it's not a very good photograph.  i doctored up a little here and there with my limited knowledge of photoshop but still not so good.  except there was a heart. and i thought about what i love about being here.

i love how relaxed we are.  i love my cottage clothes.  i love how much we read, listen to music, cook, sleep, play cards and scrabble, hike, i even love the never ending building projects. everything is slightly out of focus because time is not really an issue, we are on vacation.  i love that i have time to know that this heart shaped mushroom is a xylaria polymorpha, or dead man's fingers. 

what's not to love about that.

happy love thursday

margie

Love Thursday

I love the fall.  I love the crisp air.  I love the shades of orange and red that are appearing in nature.  I love the bags of fresh picked garden vegetables that I find on my chair  when I get to work, left by a co-worker who knows that I love to cook.  I love the taste of fresh tomatoes. 

I especially "heart" this one.
Happy LT* everyone.

Kath

*I really wanted to write happy BLT because that is what I'm thinking about now.

love thursday

best friend love the best love

i was cleaning out my youngest son's room, he leaves for university tomorrow, and i found this little foam heart.  stacey is his best friend.  they have been friends for as long as i can remember, never boyfriend and girlfriend, just best friends.  i slipped this heart into my pocket fully intending to use it here.  

a few hours later he asked to borrow some money, to take stacey out for their last lunch together before they go their separate ways

i couldn't resist mentioning that i had found the heart.  alex remembered right away that it had been inside a birthday card stacey had given him years ago.  i was happy that he remembered when he had received it, it meant something, as it should have.

Love Thursday

It surprises me how Love Thursday occupies my thoughts and highlights what I see in the days that are not called Thursday. 

I am paying attention, seeing unexpected hearts and expressions of love all around.

In the past week or so, I have sat and listened to a man speaking for the first time about the love, sparkling and new, that he has for the woman who has just come into his life.

He cannot believe this has happened to him.

I have sat and watched tears flow as a woman shared her heartbreaking grief over the loss of her mother.

She cannot believe this has happened to her.

It struck me that, in a very simple way, the two ends of the love spectrum, love lost and love found, are eerily similar when they are new to your life.

Either way, you cannot believe this is happening to you.

***

This is my kitchen window sill.

It's a little collection of things that have gathered there.

The other day I noticed with surprise the two hearts and the couple in love. 

Until then all I had ever seen was a nutshell, an ornament torn from an invitation and a matchbook, things that hadn't found proper homes elsewhere in the house.

I think they've found their home and will stay right where they are.

Thanks Love Thursday for sparking awareness
about what is sitting before my eyes in my own kitchen!

Kath