Home again!

I hugged my grandchildren goodbye....here at his school cafeteria.

It took me 2 days of flying standby to get home, I finally switched to Tulsa as my destination! We got home at 2:30 a.m. Sunday. After going by our local airport to fetch my luggage which had been there since Friday with a note saying "passenger stuck in Atlanta, still trying to get a flight"!

Here is a photo of the storm which happened while I was flying home. This photo is from Siloam Springs. beautiful!

 

 

Home to the prettiest time of year here!

Peonies and iris in full bloom, roses too!

Enjoyed making wonderful cottage cheese pancakes for our breakfast!

With local strawberries fresh from the farmer's market!

Celebrating a special birthday with friend Karen, fish and chips at the Apple Blossom brewery!

Then a stroll over to lake Fayetteville and a peaceful bench on the overlook of the weir! swimming ducks!

Next adventure was Saturday night. Local contra dance society event. In the auditorium of our VA hospital.

Lots of fun! We are rank beginners!

That was my first week home!

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This Sunday, a real treat!

My friend Paula and her partner, Jeanne, have a native plants business on a mountainside near the White River. It is in Madison County, Arkansas, about an hour from our home.....

 

 

 

They had open house this Sunday, and I took my camera!

My first time to see Lady's Slipper, above. These are larger and puffer than I had pictured them! seeing them was such a treat! Deer love to eat them, but these are inside the fenced area!

Below, "Autumn Fern" which has the rusty color on the new foliage. (Not every plant I am posting is Native!)

 

A huge "s" shaped grape vine!

A nested rock, within a rock, within a rock!

An amazing dish of hollow rocks, ready to be vases! Or flasks?

One of Paula's potting tables with my reflection in the mirror!

More potting goodies...

 

 

 

 

...AND the star off the month....foxgloves. Self-seeding and happy growing here, deer won't eat them....

FOXGLOVES!!! Maybe 300 plants....

Everywhere you look! Lining paths and rock walls, popping up in the terraced garden too!

 

 

Here near the house, with a charming birdhouse!

 

Next on my travel agenda....visiting the newest grandbaby. Born April 27!

Life is good!

 

 

Catching up!

First of all, the recipient of the orange, dreamsicle quilt which I posted about earlier....

..it was a group project by members of our guild, for Lovina. It was only a day away from Lovina's birthday and a few days before she was to have surgery! She is tired here....but loving the quilt!

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I Finished knitting 2 little sweaters for the twin granddaughters.... Bright pink!

Sent them last week and they were wearing them immediately! Yeah!

Here in a group photo with other sets of twins...only one a boy who seems overwhelmed! They are 2.5 years old...

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We have a house guest this week, my dear friend, Tracie who is moving to Austen, TX. I am helping her clear out her house, which sold last month in 3 days.....a good sign that this move is right for her, after 30 years of living in this home!

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Finally, our son Andrew is friends with a talented photographer. They both do rock climbing and camping.

So, we we delighted to learn that this photo of our Andrew, is page 26 of the Patagonia spring catalog.

Fun! Andrew is a chiropractor with a new practice in Boise and a young family, so he really doesn't get out into the mountains very often, though it is one of his passions!

So, of course, I have requested a copy of the catalog from Patagonia customer service!

 

This young man, trying on his wedding suit, is my son, Andrew.

This Saturday is his 25th birthday.

.....and, we are very happy to be going to his wedding next week!!!!

In getting ready to go, I have looked through old albums, Mary, the bride wanted a few photos for a bit of entertainment at the wedding reception....looking back...

I found myself remembering a lot of good times!

Andrew's traits-

A wonderfully athletic and happy child! Easy to be with and dependable!

Not to mention curious and creative....he took his "air Jordan" tennis shoes apart just to see how they worked!

[I wasn't too happy about that one, considering how expensive they were!!!!] He loved to construct and devise things...one year Santa gave him duct tape in his stocking!

So for the moment, I am lost in Nostalgia. There are good and bad things about being here....and I cannot stay too long because the NOW moment is calling.

NOW, I need to pack for the trip, clean up my house, rest from that last weekend of doing overnight inventory shifts where I work and get ready to return to work (normal daytime shifts) through this weekend!

So I may not be blogging as much as usual....but I will be thinking of things to post once I return!