Spring is Sprung!

On a happier note, the days are warmer and everything is blooming:

and to brighten our outlook, here is the tree in the front yard (called a Redbud I believe):

I should have taken this picture on Monday, when the weather was brilliant blue and gold, and the flowers seemed much brighter than they are now, but it's still very lovely

Spring is icumen in

Llude sing cucu

as our Middle English forbears would say it :)

And Cat has decided she needs some outlet for her gardening spirit: first, she has made a large wooden box and filled it with compost and other bits, to make a raised vegetable garden in our back yard:

and this is progressing fairly fast:

She has also made some compost bins behind the garage:

and is now working on a flower bed in the shady side yard:

Finally, Brandy pointed out that there had been a vast deficiency in cat pictures recently, and kindly posed on the sewing table:

Although of course she is bored by the constant barrage of papparazi: