The sun came out and it made it up to 70 degrees today! Then I spotted them, tiny little yellow bits of color. Yes, the crocuses are finally here. Spring may actually be on it’s way.
While I was crawling around on the ground I saw the thumb sized kale plant
And a brussel sprout plant that has not made any brussels but never mind this post isn’t about calling out freeloaders.
I’m a little behind but here is the april PhotoADay list (and how to play if you’re new).
Red Buds.
Don’t ask.
Frost on the window.
Mini horses.
I saw this guy just sitting in a tree on the side of the road.
These are gluten free kiwi key lie pie bites. SO good! I will be making them at some point.
If you want a laugh you can see how this dad and his son feel about winter here. He’s also a photographer with inspiring work.
Don’t laugh, I just learned this. It’s surprisingly simple.
In celebration of Spring finally getting here and ice cream lovers everywhere I have to tell you about a gas station in GA called Race trac where I discovered this make your own frozen yogurt!
Happy Spring!
To help out the data that indicates that the older people get the more they talk about the weather , here’s my weather report in pictures for the week.
The Rhododendrons are out in the lower elevations.
In spite of the wet spring they’re getting the hay in.
Looks like it’s going to be a good crop of poison ivy this year.
The water is still way up above normal levels for this time of year.
Until next time,
~PN
My life is temporarily in crisis with yesterdays untimely stroke, heart attack, seizure or whatever happened to my desktop. I cannot get to any of my pictures I feel like a part of me is missing. I did find these pictures stashed on usb drive and just looking at what a few flowers can do for a kid made me smile.
Rebecca came over with her PaPaw one day when the poppies and Bachelor buttons were blooming.
Those little sweaty fingers were thrilled to be told sure, we can pick flowers pick what ever you like.
She picked a few poppies and then stood there remembering a moment, a moment last year when her sister got married. Looked like a princess and had a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Rebecca had hoped her sister would give her some of the flowers but instead a terrible thing happened, her sister threw the flowers to some tall girl. Rebecca had burst into tears. People said things like "Hush Honey, that's how it works at a wedding" and "Bless her heart isn't she precious?"
Today she had her own flowers
So happy in fact that she decided to try being a flower for a moment and sat right down in the flower bed with the poppies. Yes, that looks like a dried stick she's holding up to her chin but really it's her stem because she's a flower right now.
PaPaw said he was a fixin' to go.
Rebecca gave her PaPaw the flowers. He was tickled pink to have his own bouquet of flowers.
Even if seconds later he was told they were his only while she was putting on her seat belt.
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| I can do all things through Christ which strengthen me |
I think she walked on air all the way home.
f/4.5 1/320 sec ISO –200 50mm 8:10am
f/1.8 1/500 sec ISO –200 50mm 8:09am
f/1.8 1/500 sec ISO –200 50mm 8:09am
Poppies, they're here for a moment then they’re gone.
While they’re here they’re so beautiful,
like so many other moments in life.
Enjoy your beautiful moments while they’re here.
Blue grape hyacinth
There’s something about blue that says happy to me.
I’ve always had a thing for blue. In fact at 4 years old I took things to the extreme that my sandwich could only be served on a blue plate.
One day my sister got to lunch before me and ate the sandwich on the blue plate my plate instead of the one on the pink plate like she was supposed to eat. When I got there I was more than upset and to make matters worse, add insult to injury my mother with her lightning fast hands slid the remaining sandwich off the pink plate onto the blue plate and said something about eat your lunch. Deep down I knew it was all wrong, you couldn’t fool me I knew I was eating a sandwich from a pink plate. I had no interest in the fact that it tasted the same as it would had it sat on a blue plate right from it’s creation.
I survived and life went on.
Later I learned other people had much bigger problems to live with in their life.
Over the last couple of days my view has been pretty blue.
Blue grape hyacinth
Scilla
Bachelor button
Veronica
onion sets.
I know these aren’t blue but they were just sitting there near the garden and they made me smile.
Camissia.
Periwinkle.
My new twig straight from Canada.
