crumble

Breathe and then make Rye Crumble Bars.

wait for them to cool

cut

eat

enjoy

Take them outside and eat under the beautifully blooming tree.

Notice how lovely the little lettuce is.

And remember the world is a beautiful place.

pink

Breathe in...

life or something like it

radish

Have you ever come to a crossroads in your life and been overwhelmed by both the infinite possibility that the world holds as well as the crushing reality of it all? I seem to have found myself smack dab in the middle of one.

avocado

     At least there is still sunshine and the world is turning a little more green with each new day. All I can do is take a deep breath and paint... and look for new work that will inspire instead of crush...

peppers

  

green

street art

You may think that I am a little preoccupied by spring, but it really is a hard thing not to get caught up it. Everywhere you look there is a new green shoot, a new green bud and new flowers. After a long dark winter it is hard to quiet your heart. The birds are singing, the sun is shinning, and all you want to do is be in the garden. You can be walking down an ally and look up to see a wall painting of a tulip, anything is possible in spring.

sunshine flowers

The rule in this nick of the woods is not to plant anything until Saint Patrick’s Day, and in the rule of keeping with all things green we planted peas. Now all we have to do is wait.

daylight saving

new spring shoes

   Daylight savings means different things to different people. To me it means spring. Yes it messes with the internal clock, and yes I have to get up for work an hour earlier but that’s okay because it’s going to be SPRING! That is after March and her temperamental weather...  It is starting to feel and smell like spring. Little flowers are poking up everywhere and the birds are singing.

   After a long, dark, grey winter spring is a time to clean out the old and make room for the new. Like new shoes or nail polish or a beautiful spice rack that was made by hand. 

   Next weekend we will start our seeds inside, our sweet snap peas outside and hope that there will be some good rains and no late frost. Here's to hopping...

  

flowers

Thank goodness for flowers.

birthday tulips

white tulips

happy flowers

tiger crocus

yellow crocus

fabric

fabric

bug helping out

     A new fabric store opened and I could not wait to go in. It was bliss, the kind of place that I could spend hours and way to much money in. I walked out with three kinds of fabric and a jar of buttons, though I could have walk out with much more. 

    

And because it is spring, or at least will be with is a month or so, I decided to sew a skirt. A few hours later and after discovering some new things about my sewing machine I now have a skirt. With pockets. It was a day well spent. 

    A day that was so warm all the windows and doors were open. A day that made all the little flowers happy.

Now if it would only start to turn green… 

finished!