More Spring Pictures... and questions...

Golden Glow... I think.I love our trees.

Another tree picture.
Columbine? Is it supposed to wilt like this?
Do I pull, or is it supposed to be there?
Definitely Lily of the Valley!

Job hazzards...

All day Special Olympic Track Meet+State issued expired sunblock= everybody at work saying, "Hello Ms. Cherry Tomato!" whenever they see me. Sigh.

Spring is here....I hope!

It was 87 degrees today, and so I decided that it is finally safe to plant stuff. We did window boxes today...

and yesterday I planted morning glories on the trellis in the back yard. We love our trees in the front of the house. I wish I could post the smell of them. They smell absolutely delicious.

And these are growig all over the place.... but I'm not sure what they are.

A Mother's Day Poem

To mothers that should be,

To mothers that would be,

to mothers that were and are not,

This mantle, this headpiece, this crown of light

This blanket, this girdle, this shawl of hand-woven warmth

falls onto few, fewer honor, fewer do it honor

Once this gauntlet is taken up, forever will it

hinder, protect, warm and cool

Children may come and go, live and die, but the

brand of motherhood is eternal, if hidden.

To those mothers of waiting, of loss, of hidden brands,

take heart for you are of the few hidden

forces of human nature, nurture, nexus.

The trunk of human life of buds never leafing,

of branches dry and empty, of blooms and seeds and

pock-mark scars of what once was,

Oh Motherhood- tree, with roots deep in

the rich earth, stands with or without bloom,

seed or leaf, but stands a testament to itself

To this arbor, to this canopy, to this barked

and branched pillar of life, endearment, and hurt

To thee I sing, hum, jump, dance, and shout,

To thee and thine I honor, respect,

and pay tribute with my heart and all that it is or was.

The Gym

I wanted to show off our new sign! This is Nathan's taekwondo gym- it is on Main St. in Aberdeen. I did all of the lettering, and Nathan painted the taekwondo and kumdo guys. We really liked the little guys on there, until one of Nathan's students told him the looked like Rock em' Sock em' Robots.