On my way to work the other morning, I noticed some daisies growing up by our garage. I love daisies, so I got the boys buckled in and stopped to snap a few pictures.
I love the way they turned out, and I can’t wait to get back out there and photograph them again. 🙂
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Mmm, raspberries… 😀
I can’t wait for these to be ripe so I can eat them all. 🙂
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So yesterday was busy. Like, crazy busy. I didn’t get done anything I wanted to in terms of writing, but I did get my latest rhubarb harvest out of my fridge, so there’s that. I made two huge pots of rhubarb sauce, which I now have to get out of my fridge and into some freezer bags, and I started putting together a strawberry rhubarb pie, but stopped short of getting the pie assembled and baked. I thought perhaps I’d do that today, since it was meant for tonight, but between a wicked headache and supper plans going awry, it hasn’t happened.
At least, not yet.
I haven’t accomplished anything at all today except…
I’ve been cleaning and chopping and cooking and freezing and washing all day long and I am exhausted.
I’m so tired I can’t even come up with a decent caption for this lovely picture of dandelion seeds preparing for flight, like a dream upon the wind.
Here’s hoping tomorrow is more restful.
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I find the prettiest little scenes in my yard. Last year it was a couple of tree roots sticking up out of the ground, and this year it’s a stick and a flower:
There is beauty everywhere, even under a half-dead pine tree, if only we take the time to look.
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I still can’t get over how beautiful it was yesterday. It was a little chilly, but not bad. Sweatshirt weather.
I love sweatshirt weather.
But today? Today we’re back in the cold, gray dumps. It’s wet, but not windy (for the first time in a good week and a half). I woke up exhausted, which makes the grayness seem even more dreary, somehow.
So today I’m sharing another of the beauties I captured yesterday. It fairly screams spring. It’s cheery and bright and just the thing to chase away the gray.
How do you chase away the gray?
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White coral bells, upon a slender stalk…
Despite the forecast, it’s a lovely day outside. After running some errands this noon, the boys and I came back home and spent some time in the yard playing. They played with each other, and I played with my camera. 🙂
We’ve got some beautiful lily of the valley coming up along the north side of our house and as I stretched out in the grass to capture it, Shadow and Opal stopped by to keep me company. Turns out Shadow just wanted to laze about on my lap in the sun. If I hadn’t had other things to do (and others to keep track of), that would have been a lovely way to spend the afternoon.
Cricket finally tired of the wind and decided he was ready to go back inside. “Do you have just one more picture to take, Mom?” he asked me. I assured him that I only had just one more, but after about ten just-one-mores, there was no more putting off the inevitable and we all headed inside.
Except Buddy. Despite the puppy-dog eyes, he stayed parked outside in the shade. 😉
Do your cats demand your attention while you’re trying to work? How do you handle it?
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Prior to this spring, I don’t think I’d ever seen a baby pine cone before. Imagine my surprise, then, to see what looked like bright red berries on the pine trees outside my bedroom window.
I found this on the ground a few days later. With all the wind we’ve had lately, they’re all over the place now, but this first one intrigued me to no end.
Ain’t nature grand? 🙂
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It’s a wet and windy day today, so of course, the boys were up at the crack of dawn wanting to go outside and play. There’s a chill in the air, so all I wanted to do was stay snuggled up in bed. Luckily, I was able to reach a compromise – the boys came and snuggled in bed with me.
They watched cartoons, I worked on my story.
And for a while, everyone was happy. Then, of course, the begging for food began. Kids these days – they think they need to eat three times a day. 😛
How do you like to spend cold, wet mornings?
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Our crabapple tree is blooming. I love it when the crabapple trees bloom. 🙂
Do you have a favorite flowering tree?
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 