Mary, Mary...

Quite contrary.

How does your garden grow?

WITH

GIANT

CHARD!

WOW!

It's summer!

DAY LILIES!

They always make me smile!   ;-)

Michigan Spring Synopsis

It's been fun to look back over the last 3 months through my pictures. It's been like a mini retreat: I take one deep breath with each picture and exhale slowly, then move on to the next.

Morel harvest

Marsh Marigolds

 Trout Lily

 Mama Dove: batch one

Hersey Creek

 Snowdrops

Flowering Cherry Trees

Trillium

 Batch 2 of Dove babies

 Pink Ladyslippers

 Lupine

 Irises

Manistee River

Hope you've enjoyed this little trip back through Spring.

Epilogue and bloopers

One thing that I didn't get much of in Seattle, REST!

I did find a couple of pictures to prove that I got some...usually with cat help.

I've made an "effort" to catch up on my naps since I got home, especially since jet lag really makes me spacey for a few days.

BLOOPERS

And lest you think that none of my pictures and videos needed editing...

A crooked picture plus feet!

a thumb picture...

and an almost perfect shadow, which is kind of cool, but not what I was after.

And I think this is the best of my blooper videos: "I can't see the display on the phone! Is it taking a picture? I think I'm hitting the button... Oh, it's on video!"

Now to settle back into life in Michigan.

Heading Home

I really like Seattle...

Public transportation,

public art,

broad-minded attitudes,

 

earth awareness, conservation, and recycling culture,

Travis, who is 3, while visiting elsewhere, asked his Mom, "Why no 3 cans?" when he went to deposit his recycling, compostables, and trash.

Here are the family's bins on trash/recycling day. Very little goes to the landfill. Yeay!

Environmental awareness with a little humor...

spectacular views,

farmers' markets,

and the Theo Chocolate factory.

But, of course, what I love most about Seattle, is FAMILY!

Bye for now...   :-(