winter picnic

we did this about a month ago...i just didn’t get around to posting it till now. leave it to carol, our neighbor and best friend to get us out of our comfort zone. literally. but we had a warm day, the park was beautiful, lots of good bread and cheese, free wood and a crackling fire in that cool lean-to behind carol and i in the pictures. we are planning on an overnight there in may. our luck with camping...especially with c&c...isn’t that great. lots of big green blobs on the radar. but this park is in huntsburg so how bad can it be.

whispering pines

or, in our case...frasier fir.
the sad face on olivia is cause she thought she broke the saw. but she figured it out.
we have been going to this same farm since olivia was a baby.
horse-drawn wagons, bonfires, hot chocolate, hot dogs...the whole deal.
and they take our picture (and everyone elses)
and put it in a photo album for us to discover the next year.
i love that.

red

my neighbor, carol, has lamented that color-wise, this fall has been pretty dull.
and for the most part, i agree. but then there’s this.
a japanese red maple we received as a wedding gift from our friend jim.

anybody free this weekend?

butterfly

sam called me out to the yard yesterday morning to show me this.
butterfly eggs, he said.
maybe, maybe not. but it’s still a lovely thought.

poppy

literally...poppy.
it’s the only one.
because of the increasing shade in our yard, the poppies have gone the way of the false indigo.
i love when i see yards full of them. the color is just so amazing.
but until the basketball hits it, i still cherish my one.

color

may

april

spring flowers really haven’t been my thing. i love them, but i don’t like to plant them.
but last fall i dug a hole in the softest ground i could find in the yard,
then threw the entire bag of fund-raiser tulips in. this is my reward.
(my experiment of simply lobbing the daffodil bulbs into the ivy however, not so successful.)