The Many Faces of Miss Willa

Daddy and his daughter

Tired!

Yesterday was a great celebration of 40 years of marriage with friends and family. This is the picture that sums up best, the day.

Pictures will appear throughout the week. Just not right now.
Thank you everyone for the cards, words and your presence on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
We are Blessed. Thanks for making it so.

The Yard

Curt has been working very hard and long hours, but the backyard fence is all done, just in time for this weekend's celebration.

This is how it looked before he finished the rabbit proof fence in the front of the garden.

And this how how it looks with the rabbit fence in place. I love the use of the old wood and the new.

The decorations are back up.

We are enjoying our backyard privacy, once again. We can sit out and watch the garden grow. I have made a new stand for the bird bath. That will be up and out next week.

Birthday Wishes

Happy Birthday, Melissa!

Streets Paved in Gold

Have you ever forked a lawn or had your lawn forked? Do you know what I am referring to? Plastic forks stuck into the ground of a lawn, usually front lawn so everyone notices?

Well, our lawn has been forked! But then it usually is this time of year...

by the thousands of maple seeds falling from...

the three Silver Maple trees along the boulevard. These two trees are more than 50 years old and provide much needed and appreciated shade in the summer. But the debris produced by the trees this time of year sure is a pain. First it is the brown flowers falling and filling the eaves and rain gutters. Late May is the seeding season. The eaves and gutters are now full of Maple tree seeds. The strong wind today helped with the deluge of "little helicopters" as the kids used to call them. In fact so many fell today...

it looked like the street was paved with little pieces of gold.  Time to get out the leaf blower and suck up the mess.