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I recently changed my homepage. 

((It's a hard decision to make...just like buying a home in real life.))

Before it was the weather channel website.

Now, it is something infinitely more fantastical. 

My new homepage causes me to experience...

{deep joy}

{moments of pause}

{instances of introspection}

{a challenge to my wordiness..

.allowing me to appreciate the world a snatch wordlessly}

{a deeper desire to praise my Jesus}

{giddy share-smiles}

--->share smiles=the kind of smiles that make 

people ask why you're smiling...causing more smileage

Oh yeah, you might be wondering where I make my internet home now. 

--->Today was especially beautiful!!!<---

Also, my current musical obsession is Joshua Radin's The Fear You Won't Fall

Parrot Tulips

My all time favorite flower is suretainly the tulip.

(The bird of paradise is definitely second, with hydrangea and Queen Anne's Lace tied for third.)

Recently I discovered a new kind of tulip...

Meet my new favorite flower...

The Parrot Tulip

My favorite, yellow:)

I love the feathery texture of its petals, what a beautiful representation of God's beauty!!!

((Overwhelmed by beauty is this Maddy's mind))

Kiwi Kiwi Kiwiwiwiwiw

I lova lova love love kiwis.

When I went home on Thursday, my sweet mommy-moo gave me a kiwi knife spoon that came in a kit and some delicious kiwis.

Knife/spoon ((spife? knoon? ifespoo?)) is my new favorite utensil. 

It beat out spork by a small margin.

It's a good day to eat kiwis.

((happay is this Maddy's tummy))

The Weather Is My Homepage.

One of my hobbies is being hyper aware of the weather conditions.

As a young lass, I always enjoyed the weather portion of the evening news;

this ritual helped me get really excited about the coming day.

I like the idea of being aware of the predictions involving 

natural phenomenons

--YES I consider daily weather a phenomenon in nature, it's so beautiful!! And hello we could very well wake up one day to a nice good morning sky of flaming fire or black abyssiveness!!!-- and then 

ACTUALLY WITNESSING THEM...

like seeing/hearing that it's going to rain and then 

SEEING IT RAIN!!

Ahhh simple pleasures.

Since I'm temporarily not on facebook ((for really no reason in specificular)) I HAVE to have something that I can check constantly.

I finally made weather.com my homepage because it was my most visited website.

I just realized an epsick, hip, new, heel-kick worthy feature...

YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE WEATHER WILL BE LIKE EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES!!!!

((ECSTATIC is this weather-obsessed chica))

Puncho Weather

It's a beautiful back and forth sunny/cloudy day.

Quasi-consistency is my favorite.

I'm snuggled cozy in my puncho (poncho).

~Watching Gilmore Girls~

Anticipating a glorious evening at home with the family and friends.

((Deeply peaceful is this puncho-d Maddy))

That Leaf Girl: Part Two

Time change = Summer is on its way!!!

Which means spring is now.

Which means the leaves on the trees

are highlighted by new happy bright flowers.

Which means my eyes are ever upward

and I've only tripped once.

((Happy Maddy))

That Leaf Girl: Part One

This year I started a leaf collection. Mostly I just took pictures of my leaves because they die quickly and I have not yet mastered their preservation. 

I love leaves. 

So passionately much.

I delight in the way the Lord has planned their colorings ((hello who else matches brown with red and FULLY rocks it??!!))

I am fascinated by their various shapings. 

I find peace in laying out on a deeply green lawn and looking up at the trees...watching the leaves fall. A pastime only for those with the utmost patience...or just those sickly obsessed, like myself. 

It is an obsession.

Sometimes I wander around campus or my neighborhood looking up at the trees. I am that leaf girl. 

I have many friends who found leaves and given them to me. Others have mailed me leaves from their homes in other states...even a dear friend who collected leaves for many months inside a notebook and then sent it to me...!!!! Talk about blessed!! 

Others have shared with me about how they have had their eyes opened to the beautiful leaves around them because of me. That makes me SO DEEPLY JOYFUL. Some have even started their OWN collections, HALLA!!!!

Please, enjoy the trees in your day, leaf and be merry.