Category: Spring

As I look around our “yard” I have come to think of it as “Dandelion Heaven”.  The heaven part is for their sake, definitely not ours!  Of course, as any kid would, our children enjoy picking the pretty yellow weeds, I mean flowers, and blowing the puffs that rise above all the other green growing out there!  Therefore, ensuring that the dandelions will continue to enjoy growing around our place!  Thankfully, these are NOT the only color around here.  We have numerous perennials that have been planted around our place but these lovely purple flower (yes, I know, they are weeds too) are abundantly growing in a nearby corral.  I love looking at them each time we drive by.  Don’t you just want to go lay in them?!?  The last set of true flowers were given to me by my thoughtful husband.  They smelled awesome, lasted quite a while, and touched my heart.  

Before we are too far removed from Easter I wanted to post some additional pictures taken during this amazing holiday!  I LOVE blue skies!A little red maple in our yard…I love to get a Spring and Fall picture of it each year!Two kiddos ready for Easter activities!Bunnies…they are so soft!  I always forget how soft they are until I feel one again!Checking out their stash of goodies! 

While set up for a yard sale this past weekend these lovely tulips kept calling my name!  Despite the harsh sun I snapped away…here is what I got.  Oh yea, the last pictures is a little bouquet given to me by a very special little person.  🙂  Love her creativity!   

Yesterday we had some pretty nasty storms move through our area!  We had strong winds, heavy rain and tornado warnings – thankfully, no damage or actual tornadoes!  Yet, about this time last year we had a truly wicked storm hit our area!  We had rain, weird clouds, a wall cloud, fierce winds and hail which came down horizontally because of the wind!  The hail pummeled the West side of our home and even broke a window!  Although the largest hail was about the size of a ping pong ball there was soooo much of it!  It looked as if it had snowed.  Here are a few pictures of what things looked like a year ago after that storm!

The ground was covered with hail!  The day was warm so what looks like “fog” is actually steam coming up from the hail!

Notice how the hail beat down the “weeds” in the foreground?  It stripped all the flowers I had coming up as well!  *sigh*The weird clouds!  Guess they mean hail is coming. The leaves were stripped off the trees and laying on the road! The Wall Cloud over a wheat field – after it had hailed!