In bloom

It's official. Spring is here. I ran around the yard this week trying to capture the magic of buds popping open. This here is our star magnolia, which was a gift last spring from our friends at the farmer's market. We drove home that day with four people in the car and a tree sticking out of the sunroof.

One of our Bradford pears. In a few days, they will be full of fluffy white blooms and we will enjoy them and enjoy them and then they'll be gone with one strong wind. It's always a little like a holiday when the pear trees are blooming. The only thing that could be better is if they actually made pears.

And the daffodils. Can I just mention how fond I am of these daffodils? ONE year of laborious bulb planting and they keep coming back, year after year! It seems a little bit like cheating.

It looks like it's going to be a beautiful weekend.

But who will read it...

I feel that the very act of creating a blog involves a certain type of self-confidence. You are telling the world that you have something to say- something so important that people will want to turn on their computers, find your blog, and spend time reading it.
I do not have that kind of confidence. I do, however, have the hope that one day I might be talking to a friend. And during the course of our conversation, I might mention my passion for sewing or cooking, or both, and said friend might say "tell me more" and then I could respond "why don't you check out my blog". Just like that.
And until that happens, I am just going to share my cooking successes and latest sewing projects and anything else that seems inspiring, and I will pretend that someone is reading it all. Reading it and loving it.