springtime "snow"

Ahhhh... how gorgeous is this? Now those fluffy trees are green as can be, but the weeks of blossoms were just beautiful! Those are a couple of our cherry trees. If I remember correctly, we have 3 cherry trees, and 1 little plum tree. As in, a tree that grows little plums. Not a little tree that grows normal plums. We also have a walnut tree, a hazelnut tree, and a quince tree. And a tree fort. And some pretty flowers. And formerly pretty flowers, such as the one naked tulip that our gardener, Jordan, finally just cut down. We keep getting different stories from Bran (twice he said he did it, a bazillion times he said Maeve did it, and 97 times he said it was the wind), but suffice it to say, its loveliness was snuffed out much too soon... a forlorn pile of red-yellow petals lying beneath the soldier-straight stalk. Our only front-yard tulip, proud amongst a sea of marigold admirers... Sigh. But yes, beautiful springtime blossoms!

Then, it started to SNOW again! Honestly, I looked out the kitchen window one morning and about had a heart attack when I saw flakes of white swirling through the air. (Hey, it was a cloudy day, and kinda cold, so it was a valid conclusion!) Then I realized it was GOOD springtime snow.

Unless you want to eat it. Maeve was not overly impressed with the fallen flowers.

They got stuck on her tongue.

Even worse, the ground was damp and they stuck to her FEET. I can think of few things more torturous for this child than to have stuff stuck to her feet.

Finally, I stopped snapping pics, scooped her up, and wiped every single petal from those little feet. I was definitely her hero, rescuing her from the blossoms of doom.

Then we all jumped on the trampoline. And wrestled. And laughed. And some of us cried. Because, really... that's just what happens.

Old-ish picture... Littlest Rascal using the handy orange kitchen buckets as a step stool to swipe Easter eggs from the baskets.

And this one, just because she's so dang cute. Her shirt doesn't really have those "O" things on the bottom. They're just text, placed there for modesty's sake... I actually have a pretty adorable shot of her with both flip flops on, but that would've taken a little more doctoring to score a place on the blog. Happy Springtime!