Look What We Found

Mister was out working in the backyard turning the compost piles over and discovered that something had decided to make a home back there.  Knowing my love of all things "turtle", he brought me this Eastern Box Turtle that he found in the leaves.

How cool is this?  We enjoy it for awhile and then let it loose in the flower bed.  I am absolutely amazed by how quick it moves away and sets out for it's home.  I really would like to keep it -- but I know that it will be happier in the "wild."  What fun though.

Mister shot some pictures of the beautiful flowers while he had the camera out.  Don't the flower beds look amazing?  I LOVE them.

Happy Easter!!

Up early, finding cards that the Easter Bunny had hid around plus a picture of a turtle that I saw at the Deep Ellum festival the day before, making Au Gratin potatoes and failing at rolls, lol, we then spent the day with Mister's family up in Grapevine.  The dinner was delicious and we went away feeling full and content.  Late that evening we decided to color Easter eggs and had a nice time together.  Mister was trying to do a technique that he used when he was a kid, but we didn't have the right kind of wax.

Mr. Green Jeans

After numerous trips to the nurseries, Mister was quickly put to work and spent each day for a week making the yard look absolutely wonderful.  All new flower beds all around the front and back yards were accented with flowers/coleus/grasses.  A couple of new Japanese maples found their way home in addition to some shrubs.  The bench got a new coat of varnish, new pots were hung in front and back, and the bushes got trimmed back to basically nothing in places.  He has been a very busy man.  Will have new pictures of it all a little later.

Trellis were later added to the yellow flowers, impatiens and ferns were planted all along and we close our eyes to the neighbors fence and I keep dreaming of a nice new one.

Brunch Out!

Ah - a beautiful morning and brunch on the patio at Toulouse.   Not only did it look wonderful, but it tasted divine.  I could do this all the time.

YUM!

An evening at home -- are we good cooks or what?

MR MICE

A night out for dinner saw this sign and made me smile.  Can you read it?

First Day of Spring

Okay, I get it that spring comes in like a lion, but please, this is Texas after all.  Four inches of snow was presented to us first thing in the morning -- gone by the next day, but interesting still the same.