By the look of our yard, it will soon be Spring!
This is definitely the “little cilantro that could.” The squirrels have dug in this pot so many times burying things, I’m amazed anything has made it. But it has!
This bush lines the back of our porch. It was here, but I don’t remember it having flowers when we moved here in the fall.
I’m not sure what is in the corner of that bed. A weed? Or is it something worth keeping around?
These tulips were our contribution. I had no idea all of the flowers were already in the yard. So it does seem a bit gluttonous, but you can never have any too many flowers right? We kept the squirrels away from the bulbs with some chicken wire.
Here is a calla lily! There are not too many blooming yet, but they all look like they will all be popping soon!
I think these are called bird of paradise. These are on the other side of our house. They seem almost too exotic for a yard, but I love them! I can see them when I drive up the driveway.
I hope Spring is coming in your area too. I think St. Louis is expecting snow today, bummer.
Peace,
Katy ^_^
PS Does anyone else use Wordpress? For the life of me, I cannot get the images centered unless the text is centered. What is going on? Half the time the images are mixed up centered and not. I’ve looked at the code and it is coding the image as text, so any suggestions? I removed the text tags and still no luck. Perhaps it is my browser. I’ve tried Camino and Safari without luck.
Team in Training schedules are all over our place, gym bags litter the floor, our garage is a mess of bike parts, replacement tubes and some busted tubes–that darned glass in the tread. This time, however, the athlete is Eric. The Silicon Valley team is a bit different than the Gateway team, but just as awesome. Saturday mornings start with Eric snoozing his alarm at least 800 times. We are both up by 7 because of this. 
He runs, swims, and bikes with the team and gets home around noon. Today he pulled out the grungiest, ugliest sweatsuit I have ever seen after he got back and had showered. Thanks, mom. I think it was something she gave him to keep warm in St. Louis, where we tried to use as little heat as possible. I teased him mercilessly, and he didn’t care. He was spent.
We were that close! It was fun to hear the commentators, they were in the tent next to ours. Also there was a live feed on two tvs in our tent. There was so much information on the screen: topography, speed–they got up to 56 mph on the decents! the spread of the field, etc. We were spoiled to have some finger foods and drinks too. A friend from high school that is a Ewings Sarcoma survivor, works for the 
And a close-up.
See the raindrops? We’ve been enjoying the sprinkles all weekend. Especially since they are already talking about water conservation efforts in Sonoma, not far from here. I hope the rain continues!
The tray on the left I made with the blender. The one on the right, I just chopped the fruit and hand mixed it. The chopped and mixed variety was like home-made granola. Eric approved and has eaten half of it so far.
Here’s my little serving sized baggies.