david has been doing a spring cleanup in the yard for the last few afternoons and it’s amazing how much better everything looks . . . i thought it looked fine before (he spent a LOT of time on it already in the fall), but now that he’s working on it, i can see the […]

it’s back to cold weather for us this past week; but even with temps in the 20s and 30s, i’m stalking the daffodils—looks like they could burst open the moment it gets warmer than 32 degrees. this patch is just across the yard from my office window and i look for it eagerly every year. […]

and out of nowhere, too (just to make a liar out of me, i guess). wow, and the weather here? positively balmy—it’s been in the high 60s and 70s the last couple of days. it’s been hard to resist taking a day off to play outdoors, but i was determined this week to work on […]

the white crocuses have opened—i think just in time to celebrate a finished rimefrost sock i wish we had purple and lavender ones coming in but i don’t see any of those yet. the darker flowers seem to come later, according to last year’s photo archives. anyway, even though the sock motif is frosty, it […]