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<\/a><\/p>\nLike a big, red rubber bouncing ball.\u00a0 It was beautiful.\u00a0 David stayed outside for the whole duration of the eclipse.\u00a0 Next time I will dress warmer and stay out with him.<\/p>\n Spring has sprung finally.\u00a0 Old Man Winter keeps hitting us with cold weather, snow, tornadoes and cold, wet rains.\u00a0 It seems it has rained every single weekend for the last month.\u00a0 I really hope it will be nice this Sunday for Easter and our Easter egg hunt.\u00a0 David and I have prepared 300 eggs to hide for our grandchildren to hunt. They are all teen-agers or older so no candy for them.\u00a0 They get money.\u00a0 My grandson is hosting two boys from Japan and I am wondering if they have ever hunted Easter eggs.\u00a0 They will be here for two weeks and I am looking forward to meeting them.<\/p>\n With Spring comes beautiful flowers, bushes and trees.<\/p>\n This flowering Quince is one of the earliest bloomers.\u00a0 This bush has bloomed every year we have lived here which is over forty years and it probably bloomed many years before that.\u00a0 Someone planted it long ago and I thank them because it has provided us much pleasure in seeing it bloom every year.<\/p>\n Redbuds are so pretty. They bloom wild in Indiana, but I planted this one. We have a couple more in our back yard.\u00a0 \u00a0You can see this tree from a mile away when we are coming home.<\/p>\n Our poor magnolia got burned by the frost.\u00a0 We had some warm weather and it bloomed and then a cold snap that burned the flowers.\u00a0 This has happens too often in the Spring which is why I am not that happy when warm days come in February or March.<\/p>\n This picture does not do the Weeping Cherry justice. It has beautiful pink blossoms all over it.\u00a0 Our whole front yard is a vision of pink.\u00a0 We also have an Azalea that I didn’t get a picture of, but it is so pretty, too. Reminds me when we drove through the south one time and it seemed every house had an azalea blooming.\u00a0 We also went to the Azalea Festival in Wilmington, North Carolina. The whole town was blooming and they had antebellum houses we could go through.\u00a0 One year we went to Natchez, Mississippi and I did a tour of antebellum houses.\u00a0 I love the south and at one time we thought about retiring in the south, but life got in the way.\u00a0 We got too many dogs, then chickens, then health issues and we decided we were better off where we are and I do like the changing seasons.<\/p>\n Got some more pretty fabric.\u00a0 That is another reason we cannot move. I have too much stuff!\u00a0 \u00a0And a lot of that stuff has to do with quilting. And I do have quite a hoard of fabric.\u00a0 I could make a quilt every day until the day I die and there will still be so much fabric that my poor children will have to dispose of.\u00a0 Sorry, kids.\u00a0 And I will probably buy more before it’s all over.\u00a0 \u00a0Right now I am working on a major project that is going to take some time to finish and I cannot show it as it will be given to someone at some point.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n