We need to find meaning. We need to be useful. We need to know that who we are matters. I give, you give, we all give.
Cindi says: Oh I DO like that! Such things bring my imagination and creativity to such life! What a fun time I would have exploring that 🙂
Winnie Nielsen says: The year is 1938 and we are passing along through Idaho. Is this a stop? What will we be doing here? My bag is small and right here beside me as I gaze out the window. I am definitely up to a Farmgirl Adventure~!
Nancy Coughlin says: Small Idaho towns were so interesting to me, when we were stationed at an Air Force Base there, back in the 70s! Wish our plans to retire there had worked out for us. PA is a long way from where I had hoped to be.
Winnie Nielsen says: There is my little feathered Buddy! Cheep,Cheep!
“They say it takes a village to raise a child, but in this case, 20 children are hoping to raise a village,” reports Good News Network.
Twenty teens and 10 adult volunteers have raised nearly $40,000 to build an eco-village they call “The Impossible City” for a homeless encampment in Seattle. The teens are working through Sawhorse Revolution, a non-profit carpentry program for high school students guided by professionals in architecture, engineering, and construction. The dollars raised through their campaign on Indiegogo will help build secure, personal shelters, composting toilets, and a community kitchen with solar-powered lighting and hot water.
The campaign has raised over $39,000 of their $42,905 goal so far, but for every $5,350 they raise above the previous goal, they’ll build another structure. Watch the video on Good News Network, then head on over to Indiegogo to see how you can help.
Winnie Nielsen says: Such good works! Homeless shelter encampments are complicated issues. The building part is easier than making them safe communities. So many of our homeless are in desperate need of drug rehabilitation or mental health care. The violence of these communities are often the largest part of their demise. I just wish we had a healthcare system that made the necessary treatments available to actually help these men and women get hold of their lives and learn skills to be able to work, if physically able, or stabilize their mental illnesses. Maybe Seattle can create a shelter community that addresses all these needs and becomes a national template for other communities.
Cindi says: This will make an wonderful model example for so many cities struggling with this issue. The solution is not moving their communities to increasingly worse locations, as we are seeing happen even in this town. Once again we lay our hopes at the feet of our young people. And they are coming through 🙂
Winnie Nielsen says: This is an interesting bloom. I love the hot pink against the green leaves for summer!
Winnie Nielsen says: Look at those incredible tiny details of the bird. The feet and feathers are just beautiful!
Bonnie Ellis says: Such a sweet little part of spring! Oh, I forgot. Today is the first mrterological day of summer.
Winnie Nielsen says: Could this be an old flour mill? I see the back a door with a loading dock arrangement.
MaryJane says: Good call. It’s our mill in Oakesdale.
Winnie Nielsen says: What a perfect beauty!! Some day I want to visit the place and have an up close look.
Sheena says: So lovely….I would live there or turn it into a shop.
bonnie ellis says: What a beautiful old building. I’m with Winnie. I would turn it into a shop.
Lisa Sprague says: I absolutely love this! I could live there too!
Winnie Nielsen says: In a cabin in the woods…little man by the window stood.. saw a rabbit hopping by..frightened as can be. Help me, help me, help me he cried…less a hunter shoot me dead. Little rabbit come inside..safely by my side!
Winnie Nielsen says: When I think about old barns, it brings to mind that farming in the past meant home. Lots of families farmed, and a barn was as necessary as a house and sometimes more so to protect their livelihood of cattle.Today, when we look out at large agribusiness operations, there is rarely a barn to be seen. Perhaps an open pole barn for equipment storage somewhere, but never an iconic red barn. Dairy operations up north still have barns, but they are huge and lack the charm of the past. It seems to me that the lack of barns just underscores how vastly different America produces food now. Fewer small farmers and larger corporate operations have drastically changed where our food comes from. It is both sad and less healthy.
Winnie Nielsen says: What a cool original log cabin with it’s painted sign! What stories are kept within those four walls.
Karlyne says: Love this one!
Michele says: Been there – it’s really cool.
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Love Old Glorybacked by some fierce storm clouds. She has seen her share of storms all these years!
Start singing patriotic songs when I see Old Glory and I can’t stop!
Nothing is more beautiful than Old Glory against a stunning blue sky!