After school work and the three R's, we took a little nature walk to enjoy the all too brief bowers-of-spring.
Winter seemed to last so long this year. It actually snowed on us the Saturday before Easter while we were camping in north Louisiana with family and friends. I'm not lying!!! I'm serious! Really!
It snowed April 7th in Louisiana!!! I believe hell froze over as well.
But the hot days of summer will come upon us before you can nab a firefly, and we will feel like a cat on a hot tin roof trying to catch a drop of condensation dripping from the window-unit.
Rather than heavy, our burden was yeasty lite with rolls, honeysuckle sweet with cookies, and literary rich as we brought Leo Tolstoy and Helen Keller along as our picnic companions.
We looked at weeds and talked about seeds. We held ladybugs and leisured ourselves on pinestraw rugs.
Trees can make great time-warp doors into a child's imagination:
And all water-outlets provide a place for little girls to pretend they are Laura walking On the Banks of Plum Creek.
We enjoyed honeysuckles as nature's sugar...
...as well as sweets from our oven...
...and sweet stories from our imagination and Meme's old typewriter.
Then on the way home we stopped to sup in a little of our neighbor's spring sweetness and splendor.
Thanks for joining us and may your springtime be just as sweet.
Lovely, Cay. I'll add you on!!
Posted by: KC | April 23, 2007 at 05:47 PM
Glorious! Yippee! Spring!
Posted by: Suzanne Temple | April 23, 2007 at 08:39 PM
Wow - what lovely pictures! Those flowers are just gorgeous.
Posted by: Kimberlee | April 23, 2007 at 11:18 PM
What a beautiful spring day! It is still fairly cool for the time of year here in the Keys too, gotta enjoy it while we can!
Posted by: Jennifer | April 24, 2007 at 01:30 PM
Lovely post, Cay - lyrical and sweetly visual!
Posted by: Maria | April 25, 2007 at 08:32 AM
Beautiful day! I love these pictures, and those cookies, YUM!!!
Posted by: Ruth | April 25, 2007 at 06:41 PM
Yup, it sleeted in south TX on April 7 and we had the same thoughts. There were photos of bluebonnets graced with snow bonnets ;-)
Posted by: Beate | April 27, 2007 at 02:59 PM