When Life Gives You Flowers.

I think the best part about April are the surprises that show up. When the lilac is doing its job of quietly blooming in the part of the yard I rarely go, and then there it is the sweetest smell and the lovely flowers just blooming for all they are worth. I was telling my daughter why its so hard to take pictures here. At our other place, the light was this buttery golden color. I loved the light. I couldn't stay away from it. I would look out the window and all of the light would be calling me to come and see it I could capture it with my camera. 

I don't want to say that the sun is wrong here. But it is. At my other house and all of the other houses I lived in before, they faced the rising of the sun in the morning and the sun setting in the back of the house in the evening. Here this house is sort of north/south,east. When the wind blows it goes around and around as do the clouds. The sun never glows like it did because I can only see it if I stand on something. Its things like that I have never noticed before and I sit and think about it. Especially, in the morning as I try to see the sun come up, but I can't unless I go stand on the end of the driveway like a weirdo and look to the sunrise.

Its spring and of course, my mind turns to chicks. I have even thought about sneaking off to Tractor Supply to look at them. I had a friend that lived in New York City and they were from another country and she said, that when they moved to New York, her mom kept three hens under her kitchen sink. I guess that is kind of like Robert Lee who kept a chicken with him while he was on the battlefield when he was in the War of Northern Aggression. ( I read that in a book, I had never heard that before.) I don't know if I could keep them under my kitchen sink.

This is our Comfrey growing in our garden. Aren't the little flowers with tiny bells sweet? Most amazing plant ever. Which reminds me, we will be celebrating our 46th wedding anniversary this weekend. What a incredible and fast 46 years! I told Ron today, thank you for putting up with me these 46 years. He said, that I had to put up with him too. We are agreed its been way more interesting that we originally anticipated. He was going to be a songwriter and we were going to live life out of a hippy van on the beach. We were going to ride off into the sunset and live happily ever after. I am so glad we didn't end up living out of a van on the beach.  We had such a normal, fun life. If you can say, that homeschooling six kids for 25 years, and having 15 grand children. Well you know.  

I am certainly glad that I am right here, right now. Even if the light isn't always golden, the days are mostly full of smiles and dreams that are beyond anything that I ever thought of and life does like life does, it sneaks up and surprises me when I least expect it and laughter is always around every corner. 

Thank you for stopping by to read my rambles. 

Happy April,

~Kim~