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A Spring Weekend in Pictures

tall evergreen tree ground viewWe enjoyed a full and busy weekend. I realized it would be best shared in pictures, and so here it is.

Of course, this wasn’t all of it – just some highlights.

That’s an evergreen tree in Seidman Park in Ada, Michigan. My friend, Sara, and I spent a lovely afternoon and evening wandering its trails, and I climbed this tree (not to a very impressive height… I need to remember that I’m not 10).

 

I finally got around to cleaning up and starting to prep the gardens. Every year, I rediscover a deep affection for our backyard, which was covered for so long in a deep blanket of snow.

back yard corner flower garden

Saturday night saw us at an Irish show featuring the New Barleycorn. The hubs, sister and I had a great time, as documented by our dear friend Juj.

two women one man at concert drinking

After a day of everything from petting animals to my sister cleaning our kitchen sink, we went to the annual Sacred Heart Carnival, just a seven minute walk from our house. Iris enjoyed the Euro Bungee. We also hit up the carousel in the background.

mom toddler daughter carnival bungee

These are, indeed, the days.

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Monster Squash

About an hour ago, I found these two hiding out in the squash plants in the back yard. Whoops.

I check the garden relatively often – I guess zucchini squash grow a little more quickly than I realized. Either that, or they’re really good at camouflaging themselves under the gigantic leaves of their plants.

So now I’m looking around the interwebs for what the heck to do with overgrown organic zucchini… I can’t bear the thought of composting the beautiful behemoths. Is it possible to make bread out of ones so large?

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