Happy Birthday Molly!

What a day! Happy birthday dearest Molly! We got up early and celebrated all day long. Here's the pictures from the morning porch decoration (thank you Nona for the decorations! and Mary P for taking the pictures!):

And pictures from the afternoon "dunch" (or is it "linner"?) at the park:

Spring Flowers

Spring is well under way and it's been a beautiful one! Here are just some of the flowers of late, including:
- a beautiful bouquet of bright orange poppies with pink coral bells that Nona brought us from her garden
- the brightest and longest bloom that I've seen on our Redbud tree since we planted it ... 9 years ago?
- bright yellow with orange center poppies from our front yard

Family in Fog

As I drove off to work this morning I beheld this beautiful foggy sight...

New Grass!

And now, for something completely unrelated. We put in new grass at last. After several failed attempts at reseeding the lovely grass that we had before (which had to be redone due to chicken-mauling, stump regrowth, and other issues) I had all but given up. And then a nearby company started selling the same species in sod form! Keep your fingers crossed that the sod will take and hopefully in 2 weeks we'll be able to frolic on our lovely all-native mow-free low-water lawn.