In the garden

Hi again!

We've started picking strawberries from our garden this week!  They are being eaten as fast as they can be picked right now. :)  The peas have started blossoming.  We grew shelling peas last year.  They were delicious but it takes so much effort for so few peas.  I'm growing sugar snap peas this year so we can eat them right off the vine.

The bees are working on the raspberries.  

How is your garden growing?

Spring is here!

I love spring in my garden.  It is so hopeful, exciting, and of course beautiful.  I can feel the tension release as the trees get their leaves and the flowers push out of the ground.  Winter is over and life begins again.
Today as I walked in my front door I got my first whiff of lilac.  Love.

 The blueberries look good.

The strawberries are blooming.

The first pea (I planted them way late) has reached the trellis.

 Raspberries will be blooming soon.

Happy spring!

this moment

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

If you're inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.

(First seen on Soule Mama).

First Sewing Lesson

My oldest daughter is closer to a tomboy than a girly girl.  She has never shown much of an interest in sewing and I have never offered to show her.  Then one day recently she came to me with some felt she had cut out to make a shirt for her build-a-bear kitty, her favorite stuffed animal.  How could I say 'no'?  I ran the foot pedal and showed her how to hold the fabric to guide it under the needle.

It came out a bit too small for kitty but that was okay.  Can you see how proud she is?