Every morning around 7:15 Lila paces at the door, ready to go out. She’s eager to greet the children at the school bus stop. The buses stop right at the top of my (long) driveway. She’s come to know the children and we chat every morning now.
So I heard about the fort they are building on the island directly in front of my house. The lake is called Five Island Lake. I’ve never been sure just which outcroppings are “the” five islands but they are all interesting and most of them are visible from my house. Today Lila and I went exploring two of them. We found the fort. She was very excited.
The ice won’t last too much longer, I suppose, so we are spending as much time out there as possible. We will miss walking on the lake but it will be nice to have some warm weather eventually. I hear we are to get another snowstorm tomorrow night.
Posted by leya at March 1, 2007 05:08 PMLeya, that is so cute. So nice to hear that kids still play in the woods and build forts. It was my own favorite activity as a young girl and I had my very own jack knife too! I have a dream to have a fort in the woods some day. I call that dream, Dear Treehouse.
We are getting hammered by that storm right now, in the form of freezing rain and high winds. Well not really hammered, by East Coast standards, but a bit slippy for driving on the 417.
Can't wait to see the result of your experimenting with your new paintings. You really have peaked my interest. One of these days, I'm going to buy one of your paintings. There is one whitish one on your website that I can't stop looking at.