Over the Easter weekend, the daffodils popped and have been blooming everywhere you look for the past couple of weeks now. (In case you didn’t get enough flowers yet this week.) The first spring growth always makes me so excited. Having the daffodils bloom for Easter seemed very fitting. With daffodils around just about every corner right now, it wasn’t hard to find a few places to photograph them in the neighborhood.
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Cooking meals for holidays is so much fun, but it often proves to be very overwhelming. Even (especially?) when you really enjoy cooking, it’s all but impossible to pick a few recipes to serve that your group will love and that won’t take hours and hours to prepare. With Cinco de Mayo less than two weeks away, I’ve put together some of my favorite Cinco de Mayo party food ideas. I’ve included a range of simple to impressive but not overly complex dishes with something for everyone.
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The spring floral show, For the Birds, is up and running at the Mitchell Park Domes through May 29! As always, the Domes did a fabulous job with their featured seasonal show. The flowers are so colorful, and the birds scattered throughout the exhibit add such a sweet touch. A local organization donated the bird feeders and bird houses for the exhibit.
The flowers featured include blue hydrangeas, white Easter lilies, multicolored tulips, and forget-me-nots as well as flowering crabapple trees. (Thank you to the Domes Facebook page for providing this information because I don’t know the names of most flowers.) The birds featured are native to Wisconsin and include robins, red-tailed hawks, mourning doves, loons, and grackles. If you visit with kids, you can pick up scavenger hunt sheets to help you find the different flowers and birds.
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I am way overdue to write an update about our current state with the adoption process. I gave an update back in November about the home study and haven’t written anything else since. For those who have asked, thank you. For those of you who keep praying for us, thank you even more.
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Remember my early spring inspiration post? My spring photography board is still going strong on Pinterest. A month later, the views outside are starting to resemble the images on the board. The grass is green, the trees are starting to bloom, and green shoots are popping up all over the place. The daffodils really came out in full force during the Easter weekend, which was very exciting. I can’t wait to see more plant growth over the coming weeks. My summer photography board will be a little more varied. But my spring board is all about the flowers. I’m sharing just a few of my favorite images here today.
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