A Little More Spring

We've been busy, and sick and trying to enjoy the great weather! Jojee has gone and Grandpa Mike has come and it feels like deep spring/early summer is in full swing!
We've had a string of colds (not me....yet!) but with Rand's eye and then 2 hacking, fevery, drippy kids I'm ready for some disinfecting and health.

**side note** did anyone else just notice the ridiculous amount of 's'-'ing' words I just used? 'spring', 'swing', 'string'? I'm leaving them. :)

The baby birds are almost full grown and are hopping around the shrub now. They aren't flying yet, but I suppose they will be off in no time!

I'm into cloth napkins right now and have been making a bunch for our summer picnicking. Actually they are by accident and came as the result of a big mess up on another project. Oh well. I like them and I enjoy looking at the cute fabric on a regular basis. I really need to make more because I am having a hard time wiping dirty fingers with them. I'm sure I'll like them more once we've broken them in.


Here's the babies, hoping I was there to feed them.


Hooray! Grandpa Mike is here. We have literally been counting down for something like 50 days.


Here's Rand. Feeling great by the way. Eyeball quite close to healed!


See? Wyatt's still not 100%. Poor thing. He's still keepin' up with the best of them though.



Remember when I was staring at this and dreaming?


This morning I was basking in this:

I've been thinking about that picture a lot lately as I lay in my hammock enjoying the warm breeze and the sound of birds and leaves and looking at the amazing colors. What a difference. What a difference time makes. In this case time equals life and color and noise. As time marches on it will be another season of bareness and lack of color and silence.

It's amazing to me that these are taken from the same place. A slightly different angle of the camera, but the same trees nonetheless. The same sky. Just on the cusp of summer, I have a hard time believing that by the end of summer I will actually welcome the change. But I always do. Something about the natural beat of the Earth...the rhythm God designed into the universe...keeps me anxiously anticipating the future. Even when the future holds unknowns and even barrenness. But right now I am enjoying this. Crisp blue mornings just before the heat of the day. Restful shade under perfectly situated tress. The ticks are slightly spoiling it for me and I am about to poison my yard (which I do not like doing) just to eliminate some of them. STILL, I am enjoying the now. Friends, family, little boys, little dogs, neighbors, bbqs, baby birds, picnic tables, cloth napkins. Spring.

Anyone else enjoying Spring as much as me??!?