I have baby tomatoes and sugar snap peas! The peas are ready for my salad bowl but the tomatoes have a while before harvesting, I think!

 

Sunset from my walk with the dogs on Sunday

 

And another project, if I ever finish my current projects. I found the cutest chicken panel, and got some coordinating fabric to make it a quilt with. Of course I have three or four, (maybe five?) projects ahead of it.

 

And it's done, complete with a label!  This one took a while, mainly due to procrastination.  It turned out better than I thought it would.  It used scrap fabric, so I wasn't sure how the colors would all "go" together - still the hardest part of quilting for me.  I still prefer kits, where someone else has picked out the fabric for me, but I am occasionally doing my own choices.

 

 

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?  Mine is beginning to take off!  I have sweet pea pods almost ready for a salad, and bell pepper blossoms. The tomatoes are still not happy, but the Sweet 100 cherry tomato plant is beginning to grow, so I'm hoping the others are right behind it.  I do have some blossoms on the others, they just don't seem real happy yet. The temps were up in the 90's yesterday, so they should start kicking in to high gear.

 

The star jasmine is blooming - the whole back yard smells fabulous!  Of course, it also growing everywhere, threatening to grow over/into the gate to the chicken pen, so it needs to be trimmed.  

 

The garden is growing!  My tomatoes still don't look happy, but the haven't died, so we'll see if they decide to pick up the pace now that it's getting warm (85 degrees here yesterday).  This bed has peas in the front, beans in the back and cucumbers and zucchini in the middle.

These are my tomatoes - they just don't look happy....

These are peppers and some bush beans.

Someone decided to laze about in the sink while I was getting Alli showered, and wasn't happy when I needed to brush Alli's teeth,,,,I could have just turned the water on.....

 

Check out the cute little mushroom I found while cleaning up the yard this weekend. I don't think I've even seen one like this - so cute!!!

I found the mushroom while digging out from the sycamore seeds and pollen that fell and then got rained on.  This pile in front is (almost) all sycamore pollen and seeds - yuck!  It was almost 2 inches thick in places on the driveway, and very heavy from all the rain.  I tried blowing it off, but it wouldn't budge (too wet and heavy), leaving me to scrape and shovel it off the driveway.

 

My "fairy roses" are blooming out. I don't know what they are really called, but that's what Mom called them.  Small mini-roses on a large bush. The rain we got on Saturday damaged most of the other roses, but these guys are hardier.

 

Today is Alli's birthday - 27!!  I gathered up a few photos - I don't know the years for all of them, but here are some of my favorites:

The field is shifting from bright spring green toward summer brown.  The California poppies are finishing up and the next set of flowers are blooming.  I don't know what these are, but en masse and individually, they are beautiful.

These poppies are popping up too.

And Ripley photo-bombed by landscape photo....

 

You leave one drawer open just a tad, and turn your back....  The result???  Shredded diaper liners.