“After all,” Anne had said to Marilla once, “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
(Pictures from Millcreek Canyon; quote from Anne of Avonlea because finding the part about blue plum preserves last week got me thinking more about the Green Gables series than I have in years.)