Spring is Here!

It's been a long, cold winter, but spring is finally here! (I must have slept through most of it because it seemed like it was only a week long.)

We've had quite a bit of snow on the ground for the past week, which was completely normal. In fact, they say it often falls the first week of November and stays until April. So, though I wasn't quite ready, I knew I good very easily be saying goodbye to the grass for a long, long while.

But blessing! Wonder! Beauty! Rapture! THANK YOU! It got warm! We have had 3 warm and sunny days, the snow in our neck of the woods melted, and we had a second chance to rake those leaves I never got to. It has been beautiful and I am not taking it for granted.

And another wonderful thing is that Kendall had this weekend off! So this afternoon we went on a long walk in the bush. The pictures that follow don't look very warm or sunny, but trust me, it was a beautiful day. The snow didn't melt in the bush and the sun had started fading, but it was warm. And relaxing.





This color never ceases to amaze me. I cannot believe that there can be a color this bright that is not battery-powered. Well, it's definitely NOT a natural color, so I guess it serves its purpose. And yes that is a (unloaded) gun Kendall is holding. Kendall took his gun(s) on our walk, though we almost never see any wildlife while walking as a family thanks to our natural animal alert system. (ie yelling, running kids) But I guess you always need to be prepared- you never know when a deaf and blind moose will step out onto the path ahead of us just waiting to give us a freezer full of meat.



If you look closely you will see that yes, I am wearing camouflage pants. Bushwoman.




Eli and Evan were overly impressed with the sand pit.
Eli: "This place rocks!"
Evan: "Everything here rocks!"
Eli: "This rocks, dude!" (hands held high in some weird teenagerish sign of victory)
Sigh.




I love the many varieties of moss!