i've got a half-a-cup of random for you today:
beginning with this photo, which is of our dessert last night, an hour or so past anna's bedtime, still gardening with her dad, and two sisters walking home from town with ice cream cones and their friend, and me walking around the yard with my camera and a glass of wine. this is pretty much bliss, to me.

and those chairs, there. they've been sitting, underused and peeling-paint, in our front yard since we moved in. i loved the way they sat perched overlooking the park, suggesting lazy afternoons reading while the kids played.
thing is, we never made it out there, though. we'd get as far as the front steps and plop down with the phone or a drink and listen to the voices coming up from the creek, until the sounds turned from playing to crying, time to go rescue someone.

so now they're in our back yard, freshly whitewashed and perfect under the apple tree. i think i might spend the whole summer there. i bet you i'll still be able to hear the kids.

i've four more chairs for painting this weekend, snatched barely in time from the garbage men this morning, off of our neighbors' curb. i have some fabric callie bought me for mother's day, and some white paint left. it's a do-able project, i think. even for me.

and there are girls coming home, and farmer's markets open, no real plans, and lots of time to stretch out through the weekend.

and tim just called on his walk to work, to say that he came across a newborn fawn and her mother, in the woods at the end of our street.

spring is good. enjoy the weekend! thanks for reading.
tt