It’s Spring Break and we are in Palm Springs, California for the weekend. The weather is gorgeous and I am enjoying the down time.
Palm Springs is great because it’s desert-y hot yet so green and lush. I’m always amazed at how green the grass is here. Today we are heading to the Living Desert. I plan to take lots of pics and if I can find Wi-Fi somewhere, I will upload and post them from here.
I hope you all have a nice weekend and that the sun managed to find some of my East Coast friends 🙂
Friday Finds is hosted by Should Be Reading.
I was trying to be good so I did not really look for new books, but one sort of found me.
The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
“In 1931 Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches a woman shove the cover off the family well and toss in a baby without a word. For the Moore family, focused on helping anyone in need during the Great Depression, the apparent murder forces them to face the darker side of their community and question the motivations of family and friends. Backbreaking work keeps most of the townspeople busy from dawn to dusk, and racial tensions abound. For parents, it’s a time when a better life for the children means sacrificing health, time, and every penny that can be saved. For a miner, returning home after work is a possibility, not a certainty. However, next to daily thoughts of death, exhausting work, and race are the lingering pleasures of sweet tea, feather beds, and lightning bugs yet to be caught.”
Now completely unrelated to new books, I want to share this as well. My daughter’s artwork at open house last night. Click on the pic if you want to see it bigger.
Book Chatter 