how we know it is actually, finally spring.

It's when the magnolia trees are in bloom that we allow ourselves to believe that warmer weather is here to stay.


We take our annual trip to Highland park, to our favorite high-magnolia-tree-density spot.


It's just past where, in a little while, the lilacs will be blooming, begging us to come back.


After such a long, cold, dark winter, I feel like we deserve so much beauty, don't you?

Mendon Ponds on a gorgeous spring day.

We believe in life long learning. Our Saturday outing to Mendon ponds taught us a few new things:

1. Giving H1 a gogurt to eat in the car is not the brightest thing we have ever done.

2. A 1 mile hike with kids = a 10 mile hike without them.



3. Keep an eye on H1. She might not recognize where the land ends and the water begins.

4. Don't snicker at the strangers calling the geese ducks. That may have been us when we first moved here.



5. Idyllic days don't come around too often. Seize them. You won't regret it.