TREES

My friend Nancy called me up this morning to see if I wanted to shop for trees.

YOU BET!

Martin was wading through his grading so the two of us loaded fifteen trees (and two for her) into the back of the purple van and headed for home.

I guess we all know what Martin is doing this week! Eastern redbuds, flowering crabapple, assorted fruits. Hoorah for trees.

Merry and Elspeth and their friends spent almost the entire day outside, cooking soup and rolling down the hill and playing Laura Pioneer. Even little Beatrix crawled up the hill and tumbled down again.

Did I mention Martin grading? At least he's taken it all out to the porch, into the warmth of the day and the spring wind.

To close: first open, shockingly yellow crocus seen today. Elspeth picked it and
gave it to me, saying, "It's for you, Mommy. It's a swamp lily."

PS. Thanks to friend Tonya for the above picture.