It's A Lamb

 

This last day of March was quite lovely. I took a walk in the park this afternoon. There were cherry trees in bloom.

And native red flowering current.

And lots of others strollers were enjoying seeing March go out like a lamb.

It's Easter Week

 

I decorated a couple of weeks ago, when the St Pat's table mat was still out. Now it's not. These holidays are coming close together this year. 

The Spring/Easter decorations are the same as they have been for years now. A few might be in different places. I'm not adding to the collection anymore, and I may have missed a few with my camera. 

Many of these decorations hold meanings and memories.

We are calling Easter Sunday "Spring Fest". The usual seven of us will celebrate Spring, Jake's 51st birthday. Irene's 21st birthday, He Is Risen day, and eat candy and yummy food day. 

It looks like the weather will be pleasant and there will be an egg hunt, of course. 

This week preparations will be fun and on going. 

Happy Easter Week!

Another Anniversary

 

Once we were young.

Now we are not.

But after 57 years we are still together.

And we are still making good trouble.

No Kings Rally #3

 Some people who are not in the know like to ask us "What are you protesting?"

That's hard to answer, first because there are so many reasons to protest the Trump Administration, and Trump in particular, and secondly, because these rallies don't feel like protests. They are joyous gatherings of like minded people who want to make our voices heard, or more accurately, at least in our relatively small gathering of only a few thousand, make our opinions visible.

Read for yourself. This is just a sample.

We spent a joyful two hours talking to our friend Jan, waving our signs, reading other's signs, sharing laughs and thoughts with others, and I spent about 45 minutes walking the line, taking photos and talking and laughing with people who were strangers but could easily have been my friends. 

We don't hate, not America or anyone else. But we demand better. We can be better, We are better. Well, most of us. 

The Second Day of Spring

Spring began here officially on Friday, March 20th, at about 7:30 AM. But it was cold and rainy and we were busy with breakfast and going to Kaiser Medical Center to have my finger checked, and dealing with snow storm damage that we discovered several days after the fact. We have a hole in the roof and rain and snow melt damage in an upstairs bedroom. Contractors have been notified, bids are coming in, and some work inside and outside is being scheduled. My finger will take a while to settle down, but it isn't serious.

Therefore, we were very happy to welcome the second day of Spring, Saturday, March 21. It wasn't raining! By mid day there was sunshine! We toured a garden in the morning and worked in our own garden in the afternoon. We were so happy to be outside.

Our garden tour, with our garden club, was at the Bellevue Botanical Garden, where the purpose was to see lots of Hellebores. We did. And lots more blooms and plants emerging for Spring!

Both Tom and I took photos. Get ready for a photo dump!

Fragrant Daphne odora

Early iris

One of many hellebores

Euphoribia

 

Two varieties of Edgeworthia 

Fritillaria

Magnolia

Hellebores galore.

Trilliums 

Fern fiddleheads 

Camellias 

It's Sunday morning- still. I have the newspaper to read, an 11:30 soccer game to watch, and then work outside this afternoon. Tom has lawn to mow and I have roses to prune.

Happy Spring!