Mary Lyn Ray

A star is how you know it s almost night. As soon as you see one, there s another, and another. And the dark that comes doesn t feel so dark. What if you could have a star?

Explores the ways thankfulness can find expression throughout the day.

As a child, Elva asks for a violin so that she can make beautiful music but many years pass before her dream can come true.

As winter melts into spring, the frozen earth turns into magnificent mud.

"Every house has a story. This house; an old one hunkered in the deep grass below a wide country sky is a waiting house. Once it was full of laughter and song. The sounds of life rang within its walls. Now it stands quiet and still...New families arrive to look, but none stay. Perhaps the house, too, now belongs to the Long Ago and Used to Be?"--