You know, I don't even remember what happened for Easter last year. I was a little out of it. The little one was only a few weeks old at that point. We made up for it this year. This year, there was cake. We even had an Easter egg hunt.



( No sightings of the Easter Bunny, though )

I harvested strawberries recently. One of our strawberry pots died, though. I'm not sure why, other than maybe it didn't get watered.




( From the garden )

Spring is flying by. So nice to see the garden now that all the snow has melted -- just kidding. We got one decent rainstorm this year so far, and otherwise I think we are competing with the Atacama or Namib deserts for lowest rainfall ever.

But that one rainstorm did a world of good for the garden. Things bloomed. Things that had never bloomed before.




( green and pink stuff )

A wildfire is burning near our house, but thus far it's only been ashes falling like snow and towering clouds of smoke. I spent yesterday with the windows shut and the fan running all day, and still it was smoky inside. But we are fine, and keeping an eye on the situation, and the firefighters are doing everything they can. They say the area hasn't burned in twenty years, which means it's overdue. I remember a museum exhibit about chaparral, and it talked all about how with this kind of brushland, fires are normal, so... I suppose we just need to invent space dome technology for Mars and test it with my neighborhood. Forcefields to keep fires out. Or something. Really makes you think about what you'd grab if you had to evacuate, though.

Today I have lots of pictures of pretty green growing things and tasty food.

First up, carrots from our garden:


( delicious )

It's finished!

( And about time )

Spring sprang early at my parents' house:


Blueberry blossoms

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