We’ve been freshening our house for spring. Before:

After today:

It was gorgeous warm weather, today. When Laura and I had our Face Time creat time, this morning, I moved my diamond dot tree out on the porch! Laura knitted away on a baby blanket and we told funny stories and laughed. Maybe I should record some of those, here.

The husband and I have been trimming dead limbs out of our rhododendrons. I won’t let him cut these, though, even if they are intruding on the porch:

See those two fat buds? They’re the Sappho variety. When they bloom, they’ll look like this:

I definitely include decorating and gardening as crafts!