Showing posts with label Alex and Miles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alex and Miles. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Spring Days

Springtime joys come in so many forms.  The warmer weather signals new growth in our garden.  As buds appear the hope of new life signals warmer days ahead.  Well, maybe as the days of April are fickle with 80 degree days mixed with near freezing evenings.  



 

It's almost, well almost, an embarassment of color that blooms in our garden!  


Our youngest grand had Spring break recently and we were able to all go to our favorite place, the beach.  It's wonderful to be with our grands as their busy schedules limit our time we can see them. 


 Alex was able to spend the weekend with us before returning home as he still had work and classes in college to attend.  


It was so good to spend time with our son as well.  It's so hard to believe his sons are practically grown.  It doesn't seem so long ago that he was their ages.  


 Our youngest grand, Miles has been visiting colleges where he hopes to continue running track.  


Grayden and I had such a good time with our grands.  We're so thankful to have three wonderful grandsons.  As most of you know our oldest grandson Samuel lives with us and was holding down the fort at home while working and attending classes. 


Daily long walks were enjoyed by all of us as we gazed at our favorite, the lovely ocean!


I come from a long line of beach lovers.  My late cousin and his wife were as well.  Many benches at the beach are left with memories of loved ones.  Grayden and I found Elizabeth and Jerry's near our hotel.  

Our time away was a balm for our souls.  Full of great memories of time well spent with our loved ones. 








Friday, April 24, 2015

Beautiful Spring





Spring is off to a wonderful start in our area.  The garden is blooming and the weather is lovely.  We've been enjoying times spent with the family.  The grands always bring great joy!


Alex serving and Miles looking on.


Spring was worth waiting for this year!



Wisteria with bumble bee


I have a love hate relationship with this wisteria!  I keep it in our yard for a couple of reasons



The above photo is reason number one!  The second reason is that it came from Grayden's childhood home.  My mother-in-law's wisteria was always lovely and my husband enjoys seeing it.  If you have wisteria you know how invasive it is.  It can be quite a problem.  Wisteria is known to climb many yards per year.  So to keep that from happening in our yard, we constantly have to prune the runners. It also will pop up in the yard where you don't want it.  Many plants have been given away.  I frankly get tired of it, but keep it for the above reasons.  We have one on each side of our driveway.  They are pruned to mainly be tree standards.


























It's such a beautiful time of year.  I hope you are enjoying watching the earth come back to life after a long winter!