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Terri Webster Schrandt

Sunday Stills: Simple and #Sweet

Happy Valentine’s Day weekend! I hope you celebrated with something sweet.

“Without Valentine’s Day, February would be, well, January.” — Jim Gaffigan

dessert waffles

The Attraction of Sweet Scents

“Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.” – William Shakespeare

Although I have ZERO flowers in my backyard now, my archives are full of sweet-smelling beauties that graced past gardens.

macro plumeria
Sweet Scent of Plumeria
Macro shot of rose
Bee on Lavender

Through luck, I believe these floral images fit Ritva’s Lens-Artists Challenge: Unusual Crop.

white jasmine flower
Star Jasmine

Late April is typically when we begin to see hummingbirds here in Eastern Washington.

Annas Hummingbird
Annas Hummingbird
Michigan Bluff Annas Hummingbirds

Sweet Memories

A few weeks ago, my uncle passed away. Allan was my mom’s younger brother who lived near Olympia, Washington. He had just celebrated his 82nd birthday. I’ve been gathering a few photos for my cousins this week.

I came across this one of my mom from Christmas 1990. She rocked her red sweaters.

woman in red

This is Mom and her brother as young children.

two children

I shared the photo on Facebook for my cousin and commented, “I hope Allan is being nice to his sister…” She commented back, “I laughed through my tears, cousin!”

“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” ~ Sarah Louise Delaney

I borrowed this photo of some sweet treats served at my daughter’s wedding in 2023.

wedding cupcakes
Wedding Sweets

We celebrated my step-daughter’s wedding in 2021. Why is there always so much yummy cake?

Cutting the wedding cake
Have some cake!

My middle brother is celebrating his 63rd birthday today. I’m sure the girls are making a cake for him!

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Brother and Family

Also sharing for Johnbo’s Cellpic Sunday.

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Sunday Stills Photo Challenge Reminders

The Sunday Stills weekly-themed photo challenge is easy to join. You have all week to share and link your post. Please use your own original images, whether new or from your archives.

  • Remember to title your blog post a little differently from mine.
  • Please create a new post for the theme or link to a recent one.
  • Entries for this theme can be posted all week.
  • Tag your post “Sunday Stills.”
  • Don’t forget to create a pingback to this post so that other participants can read your post.
  • I also recommend adding your post’s URL to the comments.

If you are participating in the photo challenge, I look forward to seeing how you interpret this week’s theme! Creativity is encouraged, so please share your own photographs (old or new), poems, original short stories, and music inspired by the theme.

Join me next week as we explore Love Your Pet Day.

Valentine's Day Goodies

“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

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  8. I hope you had a sweet Valentine’s Day and weekend, Terri. We had a great homemade meal with tiramisu for dessert. Not only was it sweet enough, but also rather boozy.

    I am sorry for your loss and my condolences to your family. I hope you are all able to think about the sweet times that will bring back happy memories during this sad time.

    I write this comment on Shrove Tuesday, where in the UK we celebrate with pancakes. I like mine with some lemon juice with just a small sprinkling of sugar. Today always reminds me of the pancake races that happened every Shrove Tuesday, where mainly housewifes would run a course while tossing a pancake in a pan. My mum always participated. All great fun.

    Happy Shrove Tuesday!

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    • Oh, I forgot about Shrove Tuesday. It must be Fat Tuesday too, since Lent begins tomorrow. And Lunar New Year begins today! Wow!
      Thank you for your sweet words, Hugh. We expect to lose our elders but it’s hard. We want to attend the service, hopefully my cousin has it so it works for our travel schedule. Enjoy your busy Tuesday!

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  14. Sending you my condolences for the passing of your Uncle. Hoping his family is doing alright.
    Your pictures are always so beautiful and fun! And this time they were definitely Sweet!
    Enjoy your new week! 🥰

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  22. Terri, well now as I get ready to go to bed I am hungry for waffles with berries – they look delicious! The picture of your mom and her brother when they were young is very nice and I think you look like her in this photo. Yes, your mom looked great in red by the fireplace. Very festive! The flowers look pretty, the sweets tantalizing. I liked the Laura Ingalls Wilder quote. I just finished the book “Bright Lights, Prairie Dust” by Karen Grassle who played “Ma” on “Little House on the Prairie.” Lots of drama in her life – let’s just say “she ain’t no Ma Ingalls!”

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  23. Jim Gaffigan always makes me smile. And Laura Ingalls Wilder was so wise.

    Look at all of those delicious sweets. I was fortunate enough to substitute in a prek classroom where a little girl brought cupcakes for her birthday. Each cupcake had about an inch of delicious icing. I was in pig heaven.

    Can almost smell those beautiful blooms through the computer. We have planted a rose very similar in color to the one in your photo. But it has only bloomed once. Our neighbor’s roses bloom and thrive with absolutely no attention or care from them!! Waaa!! I don’t get it.

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  25. Your mom and uncle’s younger photo is beautiful and nostalgic. I remember my papa and older cousin’s old photo watching it. Lovely images, Terri. I like the bee on top of the flower.

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  31. Such a sweet post Terri (😉), loved it from start to finish. So happy part of it worked for our challenge this week. Happy you had a chance to share your thoughts on your uncle and the rest of the family. My mom was an only child and my dad’s 2 sisters and his brother have all passed, as have they. Family time becomes ever more precious as time goes on. Glad you’ve made a point of spending time with yours.

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    • Thank you, Tina! I’m glad it worked with the cropping…I read yours, but need to come back and leave a comment. As we age, our families certainly grow smaller. It’s worth it to see our kids and siblings (and friends!).

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  42. A lovely post, Terri. Your write-up is as beautiful as your pictures. My brother-in-law’s mom passed away last week and I said, ‘She’ll be fine. My parents are there to take care of her.’ Cakes are so tempting but I’m keeping my distance from them these days. It’s no longer as easy as it was to keep away the inches around the waist.
    Your mom does rock red.
    Happy Valentine’s to you, Terri!

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    • Thank you, Jacqui! Time swiftly passes and we’re but a vapor in the wind, so it’s important to keep in touch with our lived ones. My daughter send me the pic of my mom. It was a cellphone pic of a hard copy photo, but I’d never seen it before. Nice to see Mom vital and happy then.
      I just started your new book, and I’m already hooked!

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    • Thanks for much, Pam! Earlier I mentioned I had a whole other idea planned for this post for Valentines, weekend, but with my uncle passing recently, I felt the need to share some of those memories. I went to a baby shower yesterday and there was so much cake!

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