Thursday, March 31, 2011

Miss Rumphius

This morning Oliver and Mommy read one of Mommy's favorite children's books.  Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney.  It is a wonderful story about a woman who sets out to do three things: travel to faraway places, live by the sea, and make the world a more beautiful place.  By the end of the story Miss Rumphius decides to make the world a more beautiful place by scattering lupine seeds around the town by the sea where she lives...her efforts where successful, the flowers are perennial so they keep coming back every year.  (Mommy likes things that come back.)  Miss Rumphius also inspired many people to keep making the world a more beautiful place.  
Oliver loved the story, so does Mommy.  We are thinking up ways we can make the world a more beautiful place.  Sweet dreams....

Oliver in the morning playing on the coffee table.
Miss Rumphius- Barbara Cooney has amazing artwork.
The page where Miss Rumphius talks about her dreams...
Her home by the sea.
Scattering her seeds.
Reading in the morning.
Pretty town with lupines growing everywhere.
Our Lupine seeds.  We are going to try
making the world even more beautiful by planting
 these in our backyard. 

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