It's a dandelion

Photo 204 - April 14

I seriously dislike dandelions, and dig up every one I find in the lawn or my flower gardens. Until today, I didn't realize how interesting they really are. And the ants really like them, too. I'm not sure what exactly that ant is standing on. It kind of looks like he's floating above it.




And Dale asked me if I could put a yellow ribbon on his charter sign, since someone else will be using his slip while he's gone, and he'd like to give people a clue as to why he's not running charters this year. Hopefully this ribbon will weather well. If not, I have a big roll of ribbon, so replacements can be handled.

Yes, that's the sun

Photo 203 - April 13

Believe it or not, that is definitely the sun. This morning was pretty strange - heavy frost and heavy fog. I'm not sure I've seen that combination before, or definitely not in this volume. Trinka was actually wet when we came home from walking this morning.

Morning frost

Photo 202 - April 12

The temperature here has been pretty up and down. Just when you think that spring is coming, we get a little taste of the cold again. I'm seriously waiting for one more snowfall before the weather stays consistently warm. This morning we had a pretty good coating of frost on the grass. It's amazing how pretty the frost looks close up. It sure didn't look this nice when I was scraping it off of my windshield.

Updating our bedroom

Photo 201 - April 11

My house overhaul includes an update to our bedroom. Today my quilt arrived, to complement the pillow shams that showed up on the doorstep yesterday. I am very excited to put this into the bedroom. In my shopping, I found it hard to find something that wasn't some kind of polyester and snagged easily. So hopefully this cotton quilt will have a long life and wear well. I'm just as excited to repaint! Teal and aqua are some of my very favorite colors, and there are a lot of shades included in the quilt.

Wow! Trinka has lots of friends!

Photo 200 - April 10

I'm thinking that Trinka has been having more visitors than I have! We have been watching Zeeva for the last couple of days, while her family is out of town for the Easter holidays. She's a little bit more Trinka's size, and they play together pretty well most of the time. Zeeva isn't the least bit interested in Trinka's ball, but wants to chase after her while she's fetching it.

Tiny flowers

Photo 199 - April 9

Sometimes I am so very surprised to see what I see after taking pictures with my macro lens. This is one of my very favorite flowers. It has successfully spread throughout my tiered garden and into the gardens on the other side of the sidewalk. These little blue flowers look much brighter when not viewed so close up - and they are probably less than 1/4 inch across. And when the flowers fall off the plants, they look just like they are now - except they become little cut outs deposited wherever they land.

Happy Easter!

Photo 198 - April 8

After the stripping of the altar on Maundy Thursday and the blackness of Good Friday, I love the altar on Easter Sunday. It's hard to not realize that something special has happened...He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

And what is Easter without the traditional Easter egg hunt at Grandma's? Even though the kids are getting big, it was still way too much fun watching them run around looking. Even after Jesse scoped out 13 eggs prior to the actual hunt, by the time he had to find them, he had a total of one in his bag. Good thing he had a little help and they were all collected before the weather got too nasty.