Montana is prone to overnight 180 degree changes in weather. We went from cool and rainy to warm-hot to us and dry.
It has been beautiful! A nice amount of rain and now mid 70’s, sunshine… The rain of last week has added to the lush green of spring but one warm, dry day and newly sown grass seed made it necessary to get out sprinklers and hoses.
The nice weather is distracting.
All we want to do is meander around the yard and woods and sit in the shade or on the front porch.
The lupins aren’t helping either…
They are blooming throughout the woods.
I spend a lot of time at my desk.
My desk faces east, in the sunroom with large windows all around. I am a morning person, usually up by 5:00 a.m. This time of year, it is just getting light as sunrise is just before 5:30. Sitting at my desk, I watch the sky slighten behind the mountains of the Swan Range, filtered by a bit of my woods.
To the west, the sunroom has both a window and a sliding glass door. The door leads to an alcove of grass in a corner made by the sunroom, which is tacked on to the end of the house. In that corner, shaded by a large Ponderosa Pine, is a small lilac bush and a patch of Lily-of-the-Valley. The Chair sits there. Karl likes to lie just beyond the big pine and keep watch over the ravine that is also an active game trail.
Earlier this week, on a gloomy, drippy morning, I brought a few sprigs of the lily-of-the-valley inside to sit on my desk. That pretty little cruet, the warm light from the little desk lamp, the perfect little blossoms…the little things.
The work project was delivered, the work schedule has eased a bit. The house and yard look better than they ever have thanks to Steve’s raking and blowing and general straightening up – WOW!
The rhubarb is up and I’m hunting up a good recipe for this year’s crop.
The Road Home – it looks pretty good.
The light on the mountains and tree tops of the valley, walking the loop yesterday evening.
From the front porch, the first morning home (April 13, 2010).
Familar things.
